old days

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"And then I thought, well, in the old days I would have had to make a choice, which one would I do?" he told an audience at Hay Festival in Powys.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

Moffett said that, in the old days, television channels didn’t have to worry about irking customers with rising costs, because that relationship was handled by a middleman — the cable companies.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

The push-button design means owners won’t have to remove and stow the roof panels manually, like in the old days.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026

At W, "the idea is to bring back what was once Twitter in the good old days," said founder Anna Zeiter ahead of the Saturday launch.

From Barron's • May 9, 2026

Every time there was talk about living off the land, somebody ended by saying, “How did those people manage, in the old days, going right out into the wilderness the way they did?”

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen