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Recent Examples of olden
One of the world’s largest exhibitions of olden literature is gathering more than a hundred booksellers from across the globe to share their choicest wares — rare tomes, illustrations, maps, historical documents and random ephemera guaranteed to level-up your bookshelf and walls.
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
Ice over moving water, like rivers and creeks, is never safe, even though people used to do it all the time in the olden days.
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Ray Petelin,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2026
Four years after the trade, Williams won a World Series with the Sox, and the Barry-Berry saga became a minor footnote in his career, mentioned only whenever the Sox beat writers gather together to trade stories about the olden days.
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Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2026
In the olden days, celebs would wear sunglasses inside the show — more to hide their clear enjoyment of the libations than to look cool.
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Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
12 Jan. 2026
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John Metcalfe,
Mercury News,
18 Feb. 2026
Ice over moving water, like rivers and creeks, is never safe, even though people used to do it all the time in the olden days.
—
Ray Petelin,
CBS News,
14 Feb. 2026
Four years after the trade, Williams won a World Series with the Sox, and the Barry-Berry saga became a minor footnote in his career, mentioned only whenever the Sox beat writers gather together to trade stories about the olden days.
—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
12 Feb. 2026
In the olden days, celebs would wear sunglasses inside the show — more to hide their clear enjoyment of the libations than to look cool.
—
Lisa Respers France,
CNN Money,
12 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for olden
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Co-founder and tour guide Hannah Michelle Brower says the tour will be a historical journey exploring passenger pigeons and the Lenape people, as well as looking at how the arrival of European colonizers accelerated commercial exploitation and ultimately contributed to the extinction of the bird.
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Building historical records Collecting tree ring data to study events like El Niño helps fill in the history before satellites were available, Trouet said.
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But the shift underscores a dramatic loss of clout by Comcast and other traditional media enterprises.
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While the crowds spent their money on an overheated summer in the Mediterranean, a quieter group is waiting patiently for September, October and November, the traditional shoulder season.
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The historic 1920s tower that once housed the beloved Ace Hotel is entering a new era just in time for the summer.
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As a potentially historic heat wave hits Philadelphia, many fans made cooling off their first priority during Wednesday's Phillies game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citizens Bank Park.
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Tying an Italian surname to the Outfit has become a tattered badge of honor in the antiquated newsroom of certain outlets with truth thrown to the curb.
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This offers the do-it-yourself warrior a simple, direct route from antiquated lead-acid to state-of-the-art lithium without having to search for esoteric parts online.
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The professors were bitter and angry—angry at a university, a state, and a country where their fields of study were regarded as obsolete, useful only for padding the schedules of STEM students or as a backstop for STEM burnouts.
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All devices will eventually become obsolete and be disposed of, but until such time, the connectivity models mean that almost all products are now IoT devices and require whole-life management.
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This old-time favorite is always a good idea.
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Nearly 60 years later, El Sombrero remains a classic old-time restaurant, almost like a little museum of Tex-Mex food on the edge of the north Fort Worth suburb.
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Such discussions often uncover resident sentiments about equipment deemed outmoded, unrealized expectations and inconvenient access.
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Their outmoded style, with its seriousness and corniness, its big acting choices and low budgets, is basically impossible to recreate without falling into parody.
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Families are still receiving outdated information and, in some cases, being counseled as though there is only one reasonable path forward.
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Ensure middle-management effectiveness and roles are clearly defined, and regularly audit business processes to eliminate outdated or ineffective ones.
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“Olden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/olden. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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