olden times
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Way back in olden times — seven days ago — Goldman Sachs lifted its year-end gold price target to $5,400 from $4,900.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026
“In the olden times, we viewed clean energy as ‘alternative energy’ — the Whole Foods of energy,” Mr. McKibben said.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2023
What in olden times a peripatetic philosopher said was also true of him, that opposite qualities combine in a man as in the mixing of colors.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2019
Historians are counting on technology to make the subject more interesting for young people whose ideas of olden times may stretch only to the BlackBerry era.
From Washington Post • May 10, 2018
Paddy says, Fintan, what’s an ingle? and Fintan says it’s just a boy from olden times who sits in a corner, that’s all.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
