old story
Example Sentences
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It is an old story: Demagogues corrupt the people around them.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2026
"How do I sum this up? Same old story," said Slot after the game.
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
“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
Sipping their morning coffee, cracking open the newspaper, telling that old story they’ve told too many times.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025
Charles turned away; he was almost as white as she was, and I wondered if that old story was true, that one twin felt pain when the other was injured.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
