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Or you can limit your socialization to the time-honored tradition of watching someone’s space while they run to the bathroom.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2026
It all adds up to a different take on that time-honored formula.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Before this season, savvy pitchers with expert command and dazzling spin had been able to dupe human umps into calling strikes on balls just off the plate, a time-honored tradition that had existed for generations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Oil and gas prices have been so erratic lately that the time-honored roller-coaster metaphor now looks sedate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
The time-honored solution is to create an outline, which is just a tree lying on its side, its branches marked by indentations, dashes, bullets, or Roman and Arabic numerals, rather than by forking line segments.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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