as in veteran
a person with long experience in a specified area
he's a hardened vet of many political campaigns
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The four-decade-plus NFL vet once coached linebackers with Payton on the Saints, including a brief stint in 2014 as Davis’ position coach.
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Luca Evans, The Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2025
But there aren’t a lot of vets that really want to accept these kinds of roles.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
Decimating agencies, military, siding with a terrorist state, threatening to invade US allies, stripping services from vets, ceding US power to Russia and China.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
Chances are that Hausmann-Stokes — and the team of fellow vets behind-the-scenes or in front of the camera — has seen enough bloodshed, and is astute enough to know that his film’s audience doesn’t need more of that imagery either.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
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Luca Evans, The Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2025
But there aren’t a lot of vets that really want to accept these kinds of roles.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2025
Decimating agencies, military, siding with a terrorist state, threatening to invade US allies, stripping services from vets, ceding US power to Russia and China.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
Chances are that Hausmann-Stokes — and the team of fellow vets behind-the-scenes or in front of the camera — has seen enough bloodshed, and is astute enough to know that his film’s audience doesn’t need more of that imagery either.
—Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Vet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vet. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.
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