timeworn
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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
The only hint that anyone had ever tried to develop Sweetheart Island were a few low, timeworn cinder block walls that extend into the water.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023
The afterlives of ‘The Blind Side’ and ‘The Help,’ as well as the development of ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ point to the tenacity of a timeworn Hollywood trope.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2023
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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