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Recent Examples of timeworn There are the timeworn protests that making bigger sizes is too hard and too expensive. Kara Richardson Whitely, Outside Online, 5 Dec. 2022 Mitchell says that modern pieces, with their harder edges and cleaner lines, marry so well to burnished, timeworn antiques. Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2022 Like all genres, forest horror traffics in a number of timeworn tropes. Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 31 Oct. 2022 To be sure, many recent witch novels explore timeworn themes: Witches are distrusted and feared and must conceal themselves from the world. Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022 See All Example Sentences for timeworn
Recent Examples of Synonyms for timeworn
Adjective
  • Elsewhere, though, anxiety permeates the dilapidated bars, karaoke clubs, and music halls into which Jia pokes his camera.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 2 May 2025
  • In Los Angeles, $500,000 gets you a dilapidated hut in the hood with a permanent police siren soundtrack.
    Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 30 May 2025
Adjective
  • What’s a neglected part of your ME—your health, learning, or joy?
    Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • But the area where these cuts will be felt most acutely is with respect to elder abuse, which is already a neglected area of health care and social services.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Several leaders described the pressure of being both highly visible and easily stereotyped.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • Their negative stereotyped reputation seems to follow them like ageism follows older employees or sexism follows female employees.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Mowing Lawns Homeowners are usually away on vacation or are probably too tired to maintain their yards.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
  • But, in Dick’s opinion, Charlie grew tired of baseball’s daily grind.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 22 June 2025
Adjective
  • This hackneyed stance has turned his concert performances shrill and hollow.
    Armond White, National Review, 28 May 2025
  • Yet these hackneyed qualities are minor aspects of a production that otherwise can be eye-opening and newly invigorating.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2025

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“Timeworn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/timeworn. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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