olden days
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In the olden days, you might have to lie about how rich you are and maybe borrow a car.
From Salon • May 21, 2025
"In the olden days, doctors would ease you out of life and the difference was it wasn't necessarily with your consent," she said.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2024
Two years ago, I ditched any semblance of cheesy dating apps in favor of meeting the love of my life organically, like in the olden days.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 5, 2024
It’s like the olden days when illiterate people needed the town scribe to read and write their letters, except most nonspeakers are not illiterate.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2023
In olden days they had, of course, been often obliged to fight to maintain themselves in a hard world; but in Bilbo’s time that was very ancient history.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
