old-timer
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“When we first started,” Hamalainen said, “it was common for an old-timer to take a new hire aside and say, ‘Well, kid, you’ll have a job for life.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2024
The University of Iowa’s Stanley Perlman, another coronavirus old-timer, says it’s important to keep looking for new human ones.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 11, 2024
Luis Angel Firpo in the old-timer category and Theresa Kibby in the women’s trailblazer category were the other fighters in the class.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
An unexpected departure for the duo was “The Straight Story,” a 1999 Disney film starring Richard Farnsworth as an old-timer driving cross-country on his riding lawn mower.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022
And then, despite his initial prickliness, the young man warmed to the old-timer, and the two engaged in a long conversation.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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