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Recent Examples of timeworn There are the timeworn protests that making bigger sizes is too hard and too expensive. Kara Richardson Whitely, Outside Online, 5 Dec. 2022 Mitchell says that modern pieces, with their harder edges and cleaner lines, marry so well to burnished, timeworn antiques. Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2022 Like all genres, forest horror traffics in a number of timeworn tropes. Tom Vanderbilt, Outside Online, 31 Oct. 2022 To be sure, many recent witch novels explore timeworn themes: Witches are distrusted and feared and must conceal themselves from the world. Charlie Jane Anders, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022 See All Example Sentences for timeworn
Recent Examples of Synonyms for timeworn
Adjective
  • Located inside an early 20th-century building, this dilapidated space has been given a new lease on life by the Parisian interior designer.
    Annabelle Dufraigne, Architectural Digest, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Rows of young men in camouflage report for roll call in the shadow of dilapidated, battle-scarred buildings.
    Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • By upcycling a neglected garment, Hirsch hopes to give someone the chance to experience the beauty and craftsmanship that goes into creating a piece.
    Tereza Shkurtaj, People.com, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Some who have tolerated a static image on a neglected part of their screen may not be as accepting of more distracting ad formats.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Their negative stereotyped reputation seems to follow them like ageism follows older employees or sexism follows female employees.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • At the time, Latinos were often cast in stereotyped roles with heavy accents and largely denied the opportunity to direct features.
    Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Robbins was mostly Black, a place built by Black people who were tired of racial conflict in Chicago.
    D. Watkins, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Was Michelle ever tired of using the vibrator all the time in the show?
    Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The movie’s a little more hackneyed and obvious now, but its central idea is still an undeniably creepy one: possessed children with pitchforks.
    Tim Grierson, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Which is a nauseatingly hackneyed and clichéd — not to mention stupefyingly reductive — type of statement to make about any kind of art or entertainment, of course.
    Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019

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“Timeworn.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/timeworn. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

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