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Discover LudwigThe phrase "age-old stereotypes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to stereotypes that have existed for a very long time and are often deeply ingrained in society.
Example: "Despite the progress we've made, age-old stereotypes about gender roles still persist in many cultures."
Alternatives: "long-standing stereotypes" or "time-honored stereotypes".
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One of the age-old stereotypes in business is the pushy salesperson.
Rungis is still, it seems, a man's world, populated by very few women and comparatively many more age-old stereotypes.
The declaration is a result of years of biblical scholarship, inter-church dialogue and a renunciation of age-old stereotypes.
While advocates of this position think they are talking about 'valuing difference' they are in reality perpetuating age-old stereotypes.
Many of the Southern reality TV programs, on the other hand, trade in age-old stereotypes that indict the entire region.
A few have even begun to talk of an outbreak of francophobia, marked by the revival of age-old stereotypes about the dirty, arrogant, anti-Semitic French.
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The age-old stereotype of the Little Woman mulling over swatches of chintz as the Big Guy sits on the couch with a beer is increasingly outdated.
But, she remarks, "liberal as her reportage was for the time, it was still eminently genteel muckraking: the Jew is subjected to age-old stereotyping, the poor to kindly pity".
The Turk: the darkest fear of the European, the age-old stereotype goes.
A few months ago, I talked to San Francisco holiday shoppers about their true feelings about the age-old stereotype about Jews and money.
In many ways, the absolute peak of the age-old stereotype that is the wealthy and emotionally repressed loner who is substituting much-needed therapy for alcohol dependency.
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