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venerable

[ven-er-uh-buhl] / ˈvɛn ər ə bəl /


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With an executive producer new to TV and the need to replace four correspondents, can the venerable program retain its stature?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

But industry veterans familiar with “60 Minutes” said the firings represented a notable shift in how the venerable program has been run by its predecessors.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

Starship Bagel, which is not based in New York—or even London or Montreal, cities with venerable bagel traditions of their own—but in Dallas, Texas.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 9, 2026

“Equally important, the practice violated the venerable principle of free competition,” Smith writes, and the association dissolved amid antitrust challenges by 1890.

From Barron's • May 2, 2026

One of the spectators at the match was the venerable Andrei Lilienthal, the eighty-one-year-old Russian grandmaster who’d lived most of his life in Hungary.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady




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