adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an old/ancient/age-old custom
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Here on the island, many of the old customs have survived.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
problem
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Unfortunately they still don't solve the age-old problem - what to do with the things afterwards?
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Child instruction has always been hampered by the age-old problem posed by constraints of religion.
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With this age-old problem neatly disposed of, Warwick feels he need only concentrate on defining intelligence.
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Little was done to resolve the age-old problem of land-distribution.
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It's an age-old problem and nothing that a dab of string lubricant or Vaseline wouldn't cure.
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In practical terms there is the age-old problem of accurate recording.
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It was the age-old problem that had not been solved since the Populists first went to the people in the 1870s.
tradition
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As a cradle of the coal, iron and steel industries many of its age-old traditions still continue to this day.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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man's age-old fear of snakes
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The age-old hatred between the two groups has never been dealt with.
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The vine is an age-old symbol of peace and prosperity.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was the age-old family mystery.
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Of course we return for the second act, succumbing to the age-old desire to see how it all turns out.
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The image of the Supercontinent Cycle adds yet another twist to this age-old theory.
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Theosophists rejuvenated an age-old belief in the visibility of spiritual states.
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They want to find out what it would be like to be a woman freed from all those age-old taboos.
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This is the supreme Zapatista authority and its decision-making follows an age-old democratic pattern.
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This, of course, was an age-old phenomenon, present in all materially advanced societies in the past.