as in antique
pleasantly reminiscent of an earlier time
the designer's bracelets and necklaces have the vintage look of jewelry from the 1920s
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Recent Examples of vintage
Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
23 June 2026
Rikki Kanellopoulos is a vintage collector and stylist and the founder of Sourced by Rikki.
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Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
22 June 2026
Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
28 June 2026
Some of it is planning for a hotter future rather than reacting to the challenges of a single vintage.
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Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
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Adjective
The wheeled legs on these minimal loungers are an elegant detail that reminds us of vintage styles from the ‘60s.
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Audrey Lee,
Architectural Digest,
23 June 2026
Rikki Kanellopoulos is a vintage collector and stylist and the founder of Sourced by Rikki.
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Sarah Lyon,
The Spruce,
22 June 2026
Noun
Today, a Manchester United replica jersey with a player’s name on the back runs about $200; a 1990–92 reissue jersey from Adidas, not a genuine vintage product, is at least $155.
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Leah Asmelash,
CNN Money,
28 June 2026
Some of it is planning for a hotter future rather than reacting to the challenges of a single vintage.
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Paul Caputo,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for vintage
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At work, Kirkham uses an antique sand hourglass which times an hour.
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The cedar’s visible woodgrain adds a rustic quality, and the roof’s shingles create an antique aesthetic.
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The bacteria that cause tetanus are everywhere in our environment and cannot be eliminated, which is why staying up to date on vaccination is so important.
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The chunky retro pixel art and dense particle effects give it that classic Vampire Survivors look -- bright, busy and chaotic when the screen fills up after big combo attacks.
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Doechii favored retro styling in Dsquared2 for Sunday night’s 2026 BET Awards red carpet in Los Angeles.
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Instead of a hallway of bedrooms under a single roof, the sleeping spaces are dispersed across the property, each with direct access to the gardens — a design more commonly found in tropical destinations than in a tony coastal enclave about 35 miles north of San Francisco.
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The new vessel has a laboratory space three times the size of the research vessel John Dempsey, officials said.
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A lot of the journey has been on foot, but sometimes Cohen uses other forms of transportation, including a train to upstate New York that closely follows the historic route.
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Yoshiharu Hoshino, the chief executive of Hoshino Resorts, has argued that historic buildings deserve a future beyond pure redevelopment.
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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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“Vintage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vintage. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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