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Recent Examples of olden
My all-time favorite versions are from the olden days.
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Victoria Edel, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
With Gerrit Cole out for the year, one of baseball’s most hallowed stats — The Win — has never felt more like a vestige of the olden days, kind of like VHS machines, the BlackBerry and the land line.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Tim Kurkjian, a Hall of Fame baseball writer, gave quirky stats and told stories of the olden days when dinosaurs like Earl Weaver roamed the earth.
—Paul Sullivan, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2025
Back in the olden days, all discussion surrounding individual players involved boxcar statistics (games, goals, assists, points) and the eye test.
—Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
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Victoria Edel, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
With Gerrit Cole out for the year, one of baseball’s most hallowed stats — The Win — has never felt more like a vestige of the olden days, kind of like VHS machines, the BlackBerry and the land line.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Tim Kurkjian, a Hall of Fame baseball writer, gave quirky stats and told stories of the olden days when dinosaurs like Earl Weaver roamed the earth.
—Paul Sullivan, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2025
Back in the olden days, all discussion surrounding individual players involved boxcar statistics (games, goals, assists, points) and the eye test.
—Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for olden
Adjective
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The Presidents Cup, the PGA Championship, this is a major historical legacy for sports here in this city.—
Shane Connuck,
Charlotte Observer,
13 May 2025
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To reach that goal, historical accuracy had to be built into every stage of the plotline.—
Jaha Nailah Avery,
Essence,
13 May 2025
Adjective
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To stay competitive as water stress deepens across traditional and emerging production regions, the industry must decouple manufacturing from water use.—
Ken Katz,
Sourcing Journal,
5 May 2025
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As trillions in private capital search for liquidity in a world where traditional exits no longer work, blockchain infrastructure is quietly becoming the system of last resort.—
Azeem Khan,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
Adjective
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Photo of the day: Chicagoans pack pews to celebrate South Side pope Rome, the ancient city and historic home of the Catholic Church, felt close to the South Side on Sunday as Chicagoans were still grasping the reality that a son of the neighborhood had become pope, the first American ever.—
Jane Onyanga-Omara,
USA Today,
13 May 2025
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That deal was hailed as historic, as the cap increased by a whooping 30%.—
Eric Jackson,
Sportico.com,
12 May 2025
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In my world of provider directories—which include providers’ names, addresses, phone numbers and more—typical methods for updating data are antiquated and include things such as call campaigns, attestation from providers or their health groups and manual roster updates.—
Robert Lindner,
Forbes.com,
30 Apr. 2025
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Remarkably, remnants of that antiquated mindset still persist in practice today in the State of Connecticut.—
Lisa Seminara,
Hartford Courant,
29 Apr. 2025
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To avoid becoming obsolete, traditional media companies should embrace courageous content.—
Marcus Cobb,
Rolling Stone,
2 May 2025
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The Renaissance’s old love language — the naughty puns, the sighs of longing and strategies of seduction, the paeans to the beauty of beloveds masked by fanciful Greek and Latin names — had grown obsolete long before Millay’s time.—
A.O. Scott,
New York Times,
1 May 2025
Adjective
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Listen to old-time music, celebrate the Man of Steel, dig for dinosaur bones, hunt for Easter eggs or save lives by giving blood.—
John Coffren,
Baltimore Sun,
17 Apr. 2025
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This is a vast overturning of the old-time natural language processing (NLP) that used to be stilted and awkward to use, which has been shifted into a new version of NLP fluency of an at times startling or amazing caliber.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Not least the outmoded idea that Republicans, when in power, shouldn’t use every available lever to implement their agenda.—
Varad Mehta,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Mar. 2025
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Instead of using this opportunity to make Bond a more inclusive franchise, Bezos could very well lean into the franchise’s outmoded machismo, returning Bond to an aggressive womanizer and pillar of a brand of masculinity that aligns with the values of the far right.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
20 Feb. 2025
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In the beauty and consumer goods industry, the old notion of newness as the primary growth strategy feels outdated.—
Billee Howard,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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This is a time to let go of outdated beliefs or structures that are no longer serving your higher purpose.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 May 2025
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“Olden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/olden. Accessed 16 May. 2025.
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