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was already old
adverb
Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
Exact(32)
Yes, the song was already old.
She was already old when I was a girl".
"She was already old, very fragile and suffering cancer".
"I was already old, and fed up with deceiving people," Koecher said.
By contrast, the Iran-contra affair hit Ronald Reagan (who was already old and distracted) in the second year.
"After five girls and when I was already old, God had given me a son," he said.
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"By then, he was already old-fashioned for blacks".
The dish was already old-fashioned when the Guastavinos were just starting work on the ceiling, but the old warhorses, handled the right way, can still thrill.
His art was already old-fashioned in his own time, but he provided a large number of Florentine artists, among them Michelangelo, with training in the difficult art of fresco painting.
When her mother died, she was brought up by a maternal aunt in the Cheshire village of Knutsford in a kindly atmosphere of rural gentility that was already old-fashioned at the time.
If the concept was already old-fashioned in 1956, with rock going through its birth squeals, the execution sounded so effortless, relaxed, intimate … and it blended perfectly the knowing fidelity of Our Love Is Here to Stay and the Broadway exuberance of Old Devil Moon.
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