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The adventure she relates would seem to have little in common with hoary maritime tradition, except that it takes place amid the shifting vastness of the ocean under skies of treacherous winds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

“Cats: The Jellicle Ball” didn’t make me rethink my opinion of the musical, though this hoary cat really might have nine lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

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

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

It consisted mostly of a hoary midnight-blue Japanese kimono.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger

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

Perhaps inevitably, “One Arm” is sketchier and hoarier than either of those works.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2011

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

The weapons—50 of them, all B61 nuclear bombs, which can be dropped from F-16 and Tornado jet fighters—are among the Cold War’s hoariest relics.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2019

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

Their goal is to help a lesbian student fulfill her dream of taking her girlfriend to that hoariest and most sacred of teenage social rituals, the prom.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019

Where St. John focused on diversity and folk music, Wu Han is concentrating on that hoariest of classical-music tropes, the city of Vienna.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 5, 2018

The huddled groups declared all grades of ill-fortune and of crime; from that of the "pauper parson" to the hoariest house-breaker "resting" for a season.

From Aladdin of London or, Lodestar by Sir Max Pemberton