old stager

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And will be there be another old stager on the comeback trail?

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2026

Opposite Bruce, the old stager and experienced hand, will be Gary Rowett, one of the division’s brightest young managers.

From The Guardian • Oct. 30, 2016

Far from the solitary splendour of the ancient old stager, it turns out that trees communicate with one another through their roots.

From Nature • Sep. 13, 2016

The old stager Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe, Argentina's talisman in the O'Connell or Sergio Parisse mould, remains from that squad.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 2015

Johnson was used to struggle with the sea; he was an old stager in the Arctic Ocean, and had nothing to learn either in audacity or sang-froid.

From The English at the North Pole Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Verne, Jules