old-fashioned
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Our phones eventually gave us more options, but old-fashioned score-checking got worse.
From Slate • Jun. 10, 2026
As technology levels the field between stronger and weaker nations, old-fashioned wars of conquest might no longer be possible.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
“I just said, ‘I want to do it the old-fashioned way,’ and that’s what we’ve been doing,” said Hilton in the interview before the election.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
“It was kind of incredibly old-fashioned, but very sweet. We kept waiting for buyer’s remorse, but it never happened,” she recalled.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 1, 2026
They were also encouraged not to settle for old-fashioned and “bourgeois” gender roles—“bourgeois” being a catchall term for the upper middle classes of Imperial Russia who’d aspired to wealth and luxury.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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