age-old

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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

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 • Mar. 1, 2026

The problem isn’t pacifism, but young people posing a new variation on the age-old question: “What is in it for me?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

An age-old problem for the stock market is that when things are really good in a certain business, it invites competition.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

Since leaving General Woundwort, he had become more and more deeply entangled in all the age-old terrors of the conspirator.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams