timeworn
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But abandoning timeworn procedures meant new complications—including one that led the skunk works team to the Michigan plant at 3 a.m.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
For him, the film — like all dinosaur media — has the potential to do something new, outside of timeworn franchises.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
Dotting the shoreline is a bleak expanse of detritus: timeworn pumps, tottering derricks, wayward cranes and aging pipelines.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026
A timeworn story of unrequited love, it leans on his training as a counter-tenor, before exploding into an unexpected techno breakdown.
From BBC • May 9, 2025
He climbed past the timeworn carvings of dancers, and he imagined them whispering to him.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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