old guard

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Though Wiener had been clear for years that he planned such a run when Pelosi stepped down, Pelosi is an icon in the city, beloved by constituents and uncontested as queen of the old guard.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 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

But polling showed voters were adamant: at 78, Mills literally represented the old guard and the party base wants to move on.

From Barron's • May 3, 2026

To Palantir’s old guard, the FDE remains as deeply misunderstood as ever, despite its newfound fame — a role that rivals are culturally appropriating while ignoring the often grueling engineering process it entails.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

Even the old guard doesn’t remember, but then again he doesn’t remember very much of anything.

From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick