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antique

adjective as in old

noun as in old object, often of great value

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A handful of rare and cranky antiques are powering the ungainly Hollywood resurgence of VistaVision.

So she posed as a wealthy antiques and diamond heiress, and hired a former takeaway worker as her personal assistant, who she asked to trade the cryptocurrency into other assets, such as cash and property.

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A decade later, it turned up at an arts and antiques fair in Maastricht and, following an anonymous tip-off, Dutch authorities determined it had been stolen and exported illegally.

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The “antique religions,” Robertson Smith wrote, weren’t built on beliefs and creeds but “institutions and practices” that created a “solidarity of the gods and their worshippers as part of one organic society.”

There are cheap tickers jumbled with antiques that must have survived the house fire.

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