as in ancient
dating or surviving from the distant past
age-old customs and beliefs
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Retailers continue to struggle against an age-old issue: returns and reverse logistics.
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Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 9 Dec. 2024
The Center for Puppetry Arts presents the age-old tale of a red-nosed reindeer.
—Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
With this decision comes the age-old question: Are real Christmas trees or their fake counterparts more eco-friendly?
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 2 Dec. 2024
And so, Dune: Prophecy now moves forward with the exciting truth that the Bene Gesserit is not an independent force to guide the universe down a more enlightened path, but a political organization tainted by the Harkonnens’ age-old beef.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2024
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Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 9 Dec. 2024
The Center for Puppetry Arts presents the age-old tale of a red-nosed reindeer.
—Thomas Wheatley, Axios, 5 Dec. 2024
With this decision comes the age-old question: Are real Christmas trees or their fake counterparts more eco-friendly?
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 2 Dec. 2024
And so, Dune: Prophecy now moves forward with the exciting truth that the Bene Gesserit is not an independent force to guide the universe down a more enlightened path, but a political organization tainted by the Harkonnens’ age-old beef.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2024
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In this 227-page account, which is dotted with illustrations drawn by the author himself, anecdotes range in subject from ancient Greek designs to postmodern master Michael Graves’s work for JCPenney.Geoffrey Montes, Architectural Digest, 1 Jan. 2025
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Before Aristotle, ancient Greek philosophers used techne interchangeably with episteme, the term for pure, theoretical knowledge.Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
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This venerable deli, open for 35 years in San Francisco and 29 years in Foster City, boasted a whopping 11 variations on the cheesesteak theme, including versions with chicken, salami, mushrooms, pizza toppings or all-vegetarian on torpedo rolls.Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2024
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While the venerable medical drama is known for bringing back cast members, Henderson is one of few who have never been back.Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 20 Dec. 2024
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South Korea’s oldest conglomerate, the 128-year-old Doosan Group, listed its collaborative robots unit Doosan Robotics last year.John Kang, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Perhaps the most striking comes from the Baltimore Experience Corps trial, a large experiment in which adults age 60 and older were randomly assigned to either volunteer at elementary schools or be put on a waiting list.Maria Godoy, NPR, 25 Dec. 2024
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The word has been in medieval parlance for centuries.Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
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Its story is grand and harkens back to the days of medieval fantasy entries, but its gameplay is frenetic resulting in some stunning combat encounters.David Faris, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2024
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“Age-old.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/age-old. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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