old story
Example Sentences
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“That is an old story for Black folks,” she said.
From Salon • Apr. 6, 2026
“Whenever you tell an old story, you change it, sometimes on purpose and sometimes in ways you don’t exactly control,” he writes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
They fell to set-pieces and counter-attacks - in other words the same old story this term.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025
Sipping their morning coffee, cracking open the newspaper, telling that old story they’ve told too many times.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
It might have been an old story to Patrick and the others, but I got a kick out of being mistaken as volatile.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
