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very old

adjective as in hoary

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Rather, it’s a very old approach dating back to the Middle Ages.

From Salon

"It was a decent sparring session between a tough, young novice and a very old but once great man, Mike Tyson," Bunce said.

From BBC

But in the past fortnight, the campaign has moved into new areas, or rather, very old ground.

From BBC

"He was very old and believed to be living beyond the years of a wild croc," the post said.

From BBC

To suggest that a Black person is lazy is a very old white racist stereotype that has its origins in white on Black chattel slavery and the American apartheid system that deemed Black people as incapable of full citizenship, “natural” slaves, childlike and members of a subordinate and inferior group that was unfit for freedom.

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