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Lyrically, Kahan is reckoning with his newfound fame – without recycling hoary old clichés where "every hotel room looks the same" and "nobody understands the real me".

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

“Spring” is a densely packed wall, interrupted by two doorways, which causes Ms. Yukhnovich’s floral interventions to cluster particularly close together, suggesting the sudden bursting forth of life following the hoary months.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

But sometime over this last winter — that numbing, hoary stretch between mid-February and March — I decided this might be the year to reclaim a bit of seasonal delight.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025

These field exposure estimates informed subsequent studies on the impact of such exposure on hibernating bumble bee queens and the hoary squash bee, a solitary ground-nesting species.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 18, 2024

Jerome proclaimed in a hoary voice, shaking his fist in the air.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Grapes and their relative merits are one of the hoarier topics in wine.

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2022

We first see the chef, Andy Jones, on the phone, contending with one of the hoarier clichés of overworked men, that of having missed an important event in the development of one of his children.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

Since the turn of the century, three paths have emerged for washed-up stars, displacing hoarier options like “Hollywood Squares.”

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 2, 2019

Without a bona fide star role like Lilli, though, you might be hard-pressed to put up with some of the hoarier aspects of “Kiss Me, Kate’s” sexual politics, in Sam and Bella Spewack’s book.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2019

The stars of the past and the beacons are paling, The heavens and the waters are hoarier of hue: But the heart in us chants not an all unavailing    Farewell and adieu.

From A Century of Roundels by Algernon Charles Swinburne

With “Elvis,” Luhrmann matches Presley’s drive and instinctive charisma and raises him for sheer nerve, simultaneously hewing to the hoariest conventions of Hollywood rise-and-fall biopics and seeking to gleefully subvert them at every turn.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 22, 2022

“Mrs. America” paints its leading lady not as a villain but a plausible female version of that hoariest of contemporary TV conventions: the antihero.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2020

This is the film’s hoariest plot device, but it does serve a purpose in getting Ben to grow up.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2019

Maybe we can finally talk about how Jane the Virgin took on the hoariest storytelling device around—a cancer plotline?!—and really made it sing, with the cold waters of the north Atlantic nipping at our toes.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2018

He could have embraced the hoariest of specials.

From Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming