age-old

Example Sentences

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Clarke is short of width and pace - an age-old problem.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

As the age-old adage goes, “too much of a good thing is a bad thing.”

From Salon • May 7, 2026

This drama about grief, family secrets and the strange new world of AI, poses age-old existential questions for a dizzying technological era.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

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 • Mar. 27, 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