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
“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
Everything changes when a candidate becomes a winner, so maybe it would be good for democracy to have an old-fashioned war of ideas in this moment when the future of California holds so many unknowns.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2026
Eisman’s parents, old-fashioned value investors at heart, had always told him that the best way to learn about Wall Street was to work as an equity analyst.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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