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been old
adjective
Of an object, concept, relationship, etc., having existed for a relatively long period of time.
Exact(58)
But he'd always been old.
I've been old a long time.
Popes have almost always been old.
"Today, it's 'Where have you been, old buddy, old pal?' ".
They may have been old but they were not good.
Like my paternal grandfather, Ba-sidi would have been old but active.
The phrases thus cast must have been old as Methuselah, if not the hills.
Most of us hadn't been old enough to vote hardly, you know".
For years, Bellow had been old; now, in his thirties, he could be young.
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Darwin's rhyming couplets may have been old-fashioned but his subject matter was entirely new.
There's even been old-school hits such as the classic 1989 Prince of Persia title and Super Street Fighter II.
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