old story
Example Sentences
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“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
Same old story or have England improved under Edwards?
From BBC • Jan. 13, 2026
But Erica Ford, as a cross-dressing game poacher and archer-in-disguise named Ralph, provides the kind of character and performance that delivers new blood and enlivens an old story.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
The old story, true or not, right or not, is too dear to too many people.
From Slate • Nov. 28, 2024
I drifted off, thinking about me and my mother’s old story challenges and wishing we could play another one.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
