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as in vintage
pleasantly reminiscent of an earlier time
an elegant, old-fashioned bun that was held in place with pearl hairpins
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as in traditional
tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
I'm so old-fashioned that I actually think people should use standard grammar and punctuation when composing e-mails
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Is such a closing too old-fashioned to be any longer borne?
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Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2024
But in Las Vegas, where people routinely head to their hotel rooms flush with winnings from the blackjack tables and slots, there is an old-fashioned, low-tech option that makes the door discussion moot.
—Kevin Williams, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2024
Instead, Berks County Coroner John Fielding told reporters at a Tuesday news conference that a Pennsylvania State Police detective discovered the missing link to the cold case the old-fashioned way, by digging through files.
—Graham Hurley, CNN, 1 Sep. 2024
But the term signals an old-fashioned virtue, and the independents versus the superstores got cast as a David-and-Goliath struggle, a version of the family-farm-versus-agribusiness rivalry that had got a lot of attention in the nineteen-eighties.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
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Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 2 Sep. 2024
But in Las Vegas, where people routinely head to their hotel rooms flush with winnings from the blackjack tables and slots, there is an old-fashioned, low-tech option that makes the door discussion moot.
—Kevin Williams, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2024
Instead, Berks County Coroner John Fielding told reporters at a Tuesday news conference that a Pennsylvania State Police detective discovered the missing link to the cold case the old-fashioned way, by digging through files.
—Graham Hurley, CNN, 1 Sep. 2024
But the term signals an old-fashioned virtue, and the independents versus the superstores got cast as a David-and-Goliath struggle, a version of the family-farm-versus-agribusiness rivalry that had got a lot of attention in the nineteen-eighties.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024
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