age-old
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As the age-old adage goes, “too much of a good thing is a bad thing.”
From Salon • May 7, 2026
The company is addressing an age-old problem in enterprise technology: the multitude of siloed systems and data sources that don’t communicate with one another in a fluid way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
My only guess is that it came down to the age-old issue in boxing: money.
From BBC • Apr. 1, 2026
The scope of Salesforce’s buyback ambitions invites the age-old debate over whether growth-oriented technology companies should devote so much money to capital returns instead of meaningfully stepping up their business investments.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026
It was as though a thousand age-old fears woke and struggled for supremacy in his brain.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
