old-fashioned
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No one understands their audience better than she does, knowing comedy relies as much on observation as on good, old-fashioned slapstick.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
In this case, a trusted family member or friend can be enormously helpful for receiving the occasional piece of mail, replacement credit card or other documents that still must be sent the old-fashioned way.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
At the same time, and even more surprisingly, “Hamilton” enlists the musical language of hip-hop in the service of a patriotism that is at bottom as old-fashioned as skyrockets on the Fourth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
Standing before a 20-foot wall of bright blue buckets, he tells one, facing the wrong way, that they don’t carry buckets, that they’re old-fashioned and no one uses them anymore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Lamphere had to rely on old-fashioned detective work to probe the significance of this message.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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