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Bryan is a 28-year-old country singer-songwriter who released his fifth album, The Great American Bar Scene, in July 2024.
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Last Friday, the 31-year-old country star stopped her concert at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, to chastise fans who were yelling obscenities about the 39-year-old Australian singer.
—Ashley Hume, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2025
The 60-year-old country music icon shares two children — son Elijah Judd, 30, and daughter Grace Kelley, 28 — with her ex-husband, Arch Kelley III, but is now also raising her granddaughter.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
Sweeping, beautiful countryside rolls hill by hill in every direction, split into grids by natural hedgerows or manmade walls with the overgrown brickwork of an old country cottage.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Last Friday, the 31-year-old country star stopped her concert at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, to chastise fans who were yelling obscenities about the 39-year-old Australian singer.
—Ashley Hume, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2025
The 60-year-old country music icon shares two children — son Elijah Judd, 30, and daughter Grace Kelley, 28 — with her ex-husband, Arch Kelley III, but is now also raising her granddaughter.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
Sweeping, beautiful countryside rolls hill by hill in every direction, split into grids by natural hedgerows or manmade walls with the overgrown brickwork of an old country cottage.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for old country
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In Washington, the White House said U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was in constant contact with the leaders of both countries and reiterated that President Donald Trump wants to see the conflict de-escalate.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
11 May 2025
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The process involves complex negotiations, multiple federal agencies, Congress, arms manufacturers and the customer countries.—
Tamara Keith,
NPR,
10 May 2025
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For the last eight years, Richard Irvin got the chance to live out his longtime dream: being the mayor of his hometown, Aurora.—
R. Christian Smith,
Chicago Tribune,
18 May 2025
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The second game of the series takes place on Wednesday night in Minneapolis, just 10 miles away from Bueckers’ hometown.—
Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
17 May 2025
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During the Renaissance, people in Italy would act out live nativity scenes to help tell the Christmas story.—
Megan Boettcher,
Better Homes & Gardens,
6 Dec. 2024
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In sum, despite recent claims questioning their nativity, extensive fossil and genetic evidence confirms that manatees have been present in Florida’s waters for thousands of years, with ancestors dating back over 12,000 years.—
Beth Brady,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Jan. 2025
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Veins branching along my skin like the waterways of my mother country.—
Lauren Vuong,
Mercury News,
19 Apr. 2025
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Reread Jefferson’s words in the Declaration of all the rights that King George III had denied his American subjects and forced them to break from the mother country.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
19 Apr. 2025
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This suggests affection for Scorsese’s western ran wide but not deep among the Blighty contingent, consistent with their history of only embracing films about America’s racial ills when they’re directed by Brits.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
19 Jan. 2024
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According to The Associated Press, more than 29,000 people have hit the shores of Blighty this year on small boats, after over 46,000 last year.—
Adam Shaw,
Fox News,
8 Dec. 2023
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“Old country.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/old%20country. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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