age-old

Example Sentences

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Index funds add marginal exposure to stocks as they make relative gains, a seeming refutation of the age-old maxim to buy low, sell high.

From The Wall Street Journal

That was the age-old pact between the hunters and the World Spirit.

From Literature

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

Speaking to the BBC on her fact-finding trip to Copenhagen, Mahmood said the government is "changing an age-old assumption of what it means to be a refugee -moving from a permanent to a temporary status".

From BBC

Prediction markets are raising new questions in an age-old debate around information and free markets.

From Barron's