timeworn
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But we know too that to double down is to fall prey to the timeworn seduction of the sunk-cost fallacy: We’ve invested so much in this effort that to abandon it now would be worse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 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
In the days that followed, Blanca waited for him to get in touch with her, according to their timeworn pattern.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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