old story
Example Sentences
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"How do I sum this up? Same old story," said Slot after the game.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
“Whenever you tell an old story, you change it, sometimes on purpose and sometimes in ways you don’t exactly control,” he writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
That is a very old story in America, and it has left Doukopil twisting in the wind.
From Slate • Jan. 6, 2026
Ms. Low rehashes that old story, but concedes the delta is at least partially a product of the fact that “many women want to spend time at home with their children.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
Who would care to hear an old story in a language they could not speak?
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
