old-line

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With independent studios facing challenges finding tenants to rent their sound stages and services, old-line studio titans such as Warner Bros.,

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

To a degree, the dinner manifested yet another step in the changing of the guard on Wall Street, from the old-line legacy banks to the new private-market institutions.

From Barron's • Dec. 5, 2025

“Cyclical stocks have greatly underperformed this year, but with job losses mounting, during the months ahead, even the Mag7 may not be able to keep pace with old-line CYCLICALS!” says Paulsen.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 7, 2025

“Jesse White is an old-line Democrat, a Daley Democrat,” Starks said.

From Slate • Mar. 22, 2023

All of a sudden the things that the old-line law firms didn’t want to do—hostile takeovers and litigation—were the things that every law firm wanted to do.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell