time-honored

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Bickerstaff was referring to a time-honored tradition of Detroit basketball: Turning a hard court ballet into a back-alley brawl.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Still, now is the time to pause, take a deep breath and maybe heed a tidbit of time-honored advice from a handful of Wall Street veterans: Buy the dip.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

And, along the way, Schur and the cast are reviving a time-honored television tradition.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

They did not do so, thanks to a time-honored Washington combination of obstinance, reticence, and cowardice.

From Slate • Jul. 7, 2025

The time-honored solution is to create an outline, which is just a tree lying on its side, its branches marked by indentations, dashes, bullets, or Roman and Arabic numerals, rather than by forking line segments.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker