time-tested

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“Shifting from buying dips to selling rallies sounds like good trading, doesn’t it? Buy low, sell high is a solid, time-tested strategy,” Steve Sosnick, the chief strategist at Interactive Brokers, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

“Our fruits and vegetables are grown naturally using time-tested methods like companion planting, selecting plant combinations that naturally deter pests and enrich the soil.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Such reforms would need innovation and creativity to implement time-tested values of prudence and fiscal discipline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

As the two neighbours accuse each other of destabilising relations, questions are growing over whether their once close, time-tested relationship is fraying beyond repair.

From BBC • Dec. 23, 2025

The time-tested strategy of using those who epitomize moral virtue as symbols in racial justice campaigns is far more difficult to employ in efforts to reform the criminal justice system.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander