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age-old
adjective as in very old
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Instead, the Republican sales pitch to women is an age-old deal: In exchange for submission, they will get protection.
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It’s the age-old rule of not putting all your eggs in one basket.
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The event displays age-old ways of farming and draws hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.
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This is a new version of the age-old income redistribution game of taxing people too much but then trying to appease them with tax credits or one-time cash payments.
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"We have to do everything to demonstrate that Russia is our age-old enemy," he was candid.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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