age-old
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The company is addressing an age-old problem in enterprise technology: the multitude of siloed systems and data sources that don’t communicate with one another in a fluid way.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Speaking to the BBC on her fact-finding trip to Copenhagen, Mahmood said the government is "changing an age-old assumption of what it means to be a refugee -moving from a permanent to a temporary status".
From BBC • Mar. 1, 2026
Prediction markets are raising new questions in an age-old debate around information and free markets.
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
Quentin Fottrell — the Moneyist — answered questions from a reader who brought up an age-old subject.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026
Afterwards, instead of the baptism, Father lured people down as near as he could get them to the river by means of the age-old method of a church supper.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.