old guard
Example Sentences
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It's a big moment: a grand reminder that the old guard has given way to the new.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
This has happened over and over again when a new generation steps up with a different energy and new ideas: the old guard always freaks out.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Juan Antonio Rodriguez, a 71-year-old colonel in the interior ministry, mourned the loss of one of the last members of Cuba's old guard.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The old guard held that the universe was eternal and unchanging, but in 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson discovered the faint background radiation left over from the cosmos’ earliest moments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 19, 2026
He was notoriously independent and didn’t align himself with the old guard or the new.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
