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timeworn

[tahym-wawrn, -wohrn] / ˈtaɪmˌwɔrn, -ˌwoʊrn /


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But abandoning timeworn procedures meant new complications—including one that led the skunk works team to the Michigan plant at 3 a.m.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

For him, the film — like all dinosaur media — has the potential to do something new, outside of timeworn franchises.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

A timeworn story of unrequited love, it leans on his training as a counter-tenor, before exploding into an unexpected techno breakdown.

From BBC • May 9, 2025

But unlike most morning radio hosts, Dill plays tracks in a mixture of styles that can run the gamut from obscure ambient music to timeworn dad rock.

From New York Times • May 3, 2024

The boxlike room, stripped of all embellishment or parlor fussiness, a room that wished to be timeless or ahistorical, and there, in the middle of it, my deeply historical, timeworn grandmother.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides




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