time-tested

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Recent Examples of time-tested Most of all, Washington must make clear that the U.S. nuclear umbrella—a crucial and time-tested deterrent to Russian aggression—remains in place. Michael E. O’Hanlon, Foreign Affairs, 18 Mar. 2025 The style rules that rankle conservatives are nested among thousands of Stylebook directives about punctuation and grammar, most of them time-tested and innocuous — capitalization, commas and company names. Marc Caputo, Axios, 18 Feb. 2025 Not every improvement will make a difference — or is worth the cost — but there are some that Travelers Insurance identified that are time-tested and proven to help. Ben Kesslen, Quartz, 3 Feb. 2025 There's no stopping the clock, but these ingredients are time-tested and science-backed in order to restore a smooth, firm look. Jenny Berg, Allure, 24 Jan. 2025 While effective and time-tested, these methods are limited by human memory and data-processing capacity; not because of a lack of expertise, but because human brains are naturally limited in handling large datasets. Andrei Kasyanau, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024 In that workshop, artisans, craftspeople and mechanics were assembling vehicles, new and old, using modern and time-tested techniques. Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024 Its rituals have been fine-tuned and time-tested to respond to human needs. Sigal Samuel, Vox, 20 Oct. 2024 This Week Comet Tracker Tonight: When And Where On Monday To See It At Its Best The unique aspect of our business is this elegant mix of cutting-edge technology on the consumer-facing side and time-tested, analog processes on the backend. Dave Knox, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for time-tested
Adjective
  • 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
  • For him, achieving a red carpet-worthy look is about doing your research, diving into traditional braid styles for different ceremonies, and giving credit to where that inspiration came from.
    Kiana Murden, Vogue, 4 May 2025
Adjective
  • Drive around the island and catch glimpses of past civilizations: ancient fig trees propped up by wooden crutches; centuries-old windmills that look like giant antique flyswatters; stone walls built by the Moors during the Middle Ages that somehow still look new.
    Julia Chaplin, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2025
  • The photo highlights the relative youth of human civilization by showing a 2,500-year-old temple that is ancient by the yardstick of human lives, alongside the 4.5 billion-year-old disk of Earth's moon, which has watched over humanity since our ancestors emerged from the oceans.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 13 May 2025
Adjective
  • His work in building the Augment MBA program is a response to a problem many business schools don’t recognize: the risk of over-reliance on archaic frameworks instead of education in service of action.
    Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 9 May 2025
  • Federal efforts would be better spent intervening, even by use of a consent decree, to dismantle an education system that locks poor, overwhelmingly minority students in archaic education bureaucracies based on their income and ZIP code.
    Paul Vallas, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025

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“Time-tested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/time-tested. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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