as in ancient
dating or surviving from the distant past
hoary oak trees with dripping moss and gnarled limbs shaded us from the sun
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Recent Examples of hoary
Admittedly, there was less hoary public invocation of the doctrine, but attendance at the periodic summits remained de rigeur for the prime minister.
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Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2016
This revival, despite some big rewrites by Harvey Fierstein, is still stuck around the sort of romantic cliches and hoary old body-image issues that most Broadway musicals strenuously avoid these days.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2024
The band shares hoary tales of substance abuse, desperate getaways and awkward crushes.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2024
Even now, the Nonaligned Movement is known for passing hoary resolutions calling for Security Council reform and for a more equitable global economic order.
—Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2016
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Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2016
This revival, despite some big rewrites by Harvey Fierstein, is still stuck around the sort of romantic cliches and hoary old body-image issues that most Broadway musicals strenuously avoid these days.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 20 June 2024
The band shares hoary tales of substance abuse, desperate getaways and awkward crushes.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2024
Even now, the Nonaligned Movement is known for passing hoary resolutions calling for Security Council reform and for a more equitable global economic order.
—Sumit Ganguly, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2016
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for hoary
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This culinary adventure includes ancient cooking methods that lead to soulful cuisine and an environment that captures the excitement of Tel Aviv and Miami.Melinda Sheckells, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
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Their ancient privilege will be reduced to a life adapted to a luxurious hole, an underground universe full of enigmas where a wound from the past will explode between two conflicting families.Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
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Photoshop still includes the venerable Lasso, Magic Wand, and Marquee, as well as the Object and Quick selection tools (with their cool Subject Select checkbox).PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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At Baur au Lac, Zurich's grandest hotel, contemporary art has been installed behind the reception, the wood panelling spruced up and its venerable newsstand removed.Bill Prince, theweek, 7 Nov. 2024
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The show skips across the decades, dramatizing the interviews an older Dolours (Maxine Peake) did for a Boston College oral history of the Troubles, which were taped with the promise that they would be released only after participants’ deaths.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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By contrast, the prospect of citizenships and alliances—and perhaps conquests or crusades—structured around the opinions, beliefs, and subjective identities of ordinary people in times of peace would require a new (or very old) conception of empire.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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On the day of what is without exaggeration being called the most consequential election of our time, ignoring political news in favor of watching an antique cheese slicer being restored may seem frivolous.Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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The interiors are a paean to nautical good taste, decked with antique oil portraits, brass chandeliers, and white wainscotting.Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
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The architecture preserves this history from the medieval Islamic Kasbah of the Udayas to the Colonial-era neighborhoods and beyond.Elle Benson Easton, Travel + Leisure, 2 Nov. 2024
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During a proceeding, for example, the College of Cardinals stays in the Casa Santa Marta, an ornate, medieval dormitory where they are fed and tended to by an order of nuns.Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2024
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