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You can use it when you reject something, such as an excuse, because it is not plausible or it is out of date or irrelevant to the current situation. Example sentence: "That's just an old excuse, we need something new."
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That old excuse.
Further proof that for many people, any old excuse to drink will do.
You know the old excuse: I can quit whenever I want to.
Mr. Balliett makes up long, incomplete lists of names at any old excuse.
I say to him – don't use that being nearly 100 years old excuse.
Please don't use the old excuse of "passion" or being, as she calls him, "an exploder".
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It echoed grimly of the old excuses.
As it cracked down on demonstrators, it issued statements, banning any further protests and repeating the same old excuses.
But there will come a day when the road dead-ends, and the old excuses seem even more hollow.
Are the old excuses of national security and international relations being used to hide personal and national embarrassment?
He is often photographed cycling or jogging, as if to ram home the contrast with an older president.Above all, Mr Sarkozy rejects old excuses for not reforming France.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com