old-fashioned
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Four larger cylinders were positioned on a rotating carousel in a configuration resembling four candlesticks on an old-fashioned chandelier.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
With fashion icons increasingly touting their thrift finds on social media and industry events, old-fashioned has become fashionable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
He often spoke of striving, which he meant as searching or seeking, but the word also took on the old-fashioned connotation of uplifting the race by uplifting yourself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Despite bigger military budgets, younger defence firms still complain not enough is going towards autonomous systems compared to old-fashioned weaponry, like tanks, that is vulnerable to attack from cheaper drones.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Guiffart is old-fashioned; Pascal does not argue like this, and even Guiffart has to admit at last that the experiments may in fact be unprecedented.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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