as in veteran
a person with long experience in a specified area
a warhorse who's survived far nastier campaigns in his long political career
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Old warhorses such as Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Push and Al Sharpton’s National Action Network never really went anywhere, and they have been joined at the trough by more than 100 BLM groups led by Patrisse Cullors’s Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
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Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
Her observations about how a generation takes these creators more seriously than journalistic warhorses comes with post-touchdown spikes worthy of taunting penalties.
—WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
Streamlined to the point of simple-mindedness, the set-up involves a ruthless bad guy (Iko Uwais) who steals a nuclear weapon, forcing everyone’s favorite team of old warhorses to saddle up again, this time with marching orders from a government operative played by Andy Garcia.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
Hire a music director with an engaging stage personality and penetrating musical insight that can energize tired old warhorses.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023
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Wilfred Reilly, National Review, 3 Jan. 2024
Her observations about how a generation takes these creators more seriously than journalistic warhorses comes with post-touchdown spikes worthy of taunting penalties.
—WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
Streamlined to the point of simple-mindedness, the set-up involves a ruthless bad guy (Iko Uwais) who steals a nuclear weapon, forcing everyone’s favorite team of old warhorses to saddle up again, this time with marching orders from a government operative played by Andy Garcia.
—Brian Lowry, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
Hire a music director with an engaging stage personality and penetrating musical insight that can energize tired old warhorses.
—Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2023
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“Warhorse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warhorse. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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