old hand
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Its episodic encores are currently airing on Fox as a lead-in to “The Faithful,” whose showrunner, René Echevarria, is an old hand at both network and cable, and whose work includes “The 4400.”
From Salon • Mar. 29, 2026
Salah-Eddine Oulad M’hand is a relative old hand at 20.
From BBC • Jul. 25, 2024
As for Evans, he looked like an old hand in a top defensive pairing alongside Adam Larsson as well as “quarterbacking” the second power play unit.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2023
In the car ride afterward, Bonds — a political old hand, a widowed mother of three and grandmother of six — contemplated trying it out herself.
From Washington Post • Apr. 27, 2022
At the rail yard, I felt like an old hand.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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