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Recent Examples of old hat
But ultimately, this whole day was old hat for Whoopi, who already got to meet Pope Francis on her own last year.
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Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 14 June 2024
At the age of 20, being a rising star is old hat for Maisy Stella.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2024
An old hat style that created problems years ago has returned.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
The fun in 1984 of a fish-out-of-water Black cop getting endless amusement from uptight bougie white folks in a city that reeks of insular wealth and entitlement just seems old hat now.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2024
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Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 14 June 2024
At the age of 20, being a rising star is old hat for Maisy Stella.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 29 Sep. 2024
An old hat style that created problems years ago has returned.
—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 5 July 2024
The fun in 1984 of a fish-out-of-water Black cop getting endless amusement from uptight bougie white folks in a city that reeks of insular wealth and entitlement just seems old hat now.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 July 2024
See all Example Sentences for old hat
Recent Examples of Synonyms for old hat
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Uncovering cultural resilience To better understand South Korea’s unique leisure culture, Kim looked to its historical backdrop — particularly the cultural stagnation that followed the decades of Japanese colonial rule and the Korean War.Hanna Park, CNN, 13 Jan. 2025
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See them In a cathedral crypt, royal treasures that had been hidden and lost for decades were uncovered, revealing a trove of historical artifacts.Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization, Miami Herald, 13 Jan. 2025
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The Oakland Hills fire is such a historic catastrophe that it is burned into the department psyche.Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
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His only other playoff game was the historic collapse against the Jacksonville Jaguars in the 2022 wild-card round.Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2025
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This is particularly true when the prevailing stereotypes are based on outmoded information.Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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More than half of federal prison facilities were built before 1991 and many are becoming outmoded or obsolete, the agency said.Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024
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The medical research literature is filled with promising-looking ideas that never panned out, and out-of-date treatments and tests that have been replaced by approaches more solidly based on evidence.John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Jan. 2025
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But the week ending November 30 is even more out-of-date than the week ending December 14.Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
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These outdated infrastructures keep retail organizations from moving forward.Stephen Davidson, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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Using an outdated browser increases the risk of being targeted by attacks that could have been prevented with a simple update.Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report, Fox News, 6 Jan. 2025
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Seven years later, in December 2014, the couple married in a traditional Samoan ceremony on Disney’s Castaway Cay, a private island in the Bahamas.Katie Mannion, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
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The encampments belonged to Muslim residents, known as Moros, who had fled their villages in Jolo, an island in the traditional Moro homeland of Mindanao, after the U.S. military took control in 1899.Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
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My all-time favorite versions are from the olden days.Victoria Edel, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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Eggers and his go-to production designer Craig Lathrop also put a unique emphasis on building realistic worlds—their production design strives extra hard to close gaps between Eggers’s olden aesthetic and the modern audience’s perception.Maya Ibbitson, Architectural Digest, 23 Dec. 2024
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This was not a forgone conclusion at the time; indeed, during the 1930s, democracy was widely viewed as an outworn political form.Taeku Lee, Foreign Affairs, 12 Aug. 2013
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Perhaps that’s the legacy of outworn stereotypes about corruption or a lack of the type of political will that’s brought more rapid changes to corporate governance and sustainable investing standards in, for example, some Nordic countries.Cassie Werber, Quartz, 7 June 2022
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