as in traditional
tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions an old-line professor who still taught as if it were 1930
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Recent Examples of old-line The larger, at 31 Pratt, is the former headquarters of Society for Savings, an old-line bank whose roots stretched back to 1819. —
Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026 These firms had been the envy of the old-line investment banking houses. —Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026 More practically, people on Netflix’s side might say that further industry consolidation is inevitable, given changing consumer habits and shifting business models for old-line media companies. —Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025 That has included a growing number of tech and IT firms taking their place, pushing off the likes of print publishers and old-line industrial companies in the process. —Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025 Among the festival organizers, Yarrow was an advocate for the topical songwriting and contemporary sounds that some old-line folk aficionados resisted. —Jon Pareles, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 Her main opponent is expected to be Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Virginia), 74, who is considered a more mainstream, old-line Democratic figure. —Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 6 Dec. 2024
Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 9 Apr. 2026 These firms had been the envy of the old-line investment banking houses. —Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026 More practically, people on Netflix’s side might say that further industry consolidation is inevitable, given changing consumer habits and shifting business models for old-line media companies. —Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 5 Dec. 2025 That has included a growing number of tech and IT firms taking their place, pushing off the likes of print publishers and old-line industrial companies in the process. —Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025 Among the festival organizers, Yarrow was an advocate for the topical songwriting and contemporary sounds that some old-line folk aficionados resisted. —Jon Pareles, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025 Her main opponent is expected to be Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Virginia), 74, who is considered a more mainstream, old-line Democratic figure. —Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 6 Dec. 2024
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Crypto apps like Coinbase have begun to diversify into non-crypto assets, and more traditional retail finance apps like Robinhood have begun to dip their toes into areas like tokenized stocks.— Jack Kubinec, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2026
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People are in the right conditions, so meetings are more meaningful than in a traditional market where everything is back-to-back.— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
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Following a conservative first half when LAFC got nothing going offensively but didn’t give up much on the other end either, the Black & Gold carried a front-foot approach out of the locker room after the break.— Josh Gross, Daily News, 30 Apr. 2026
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Released regionally by Angel Studios, widely known for conservative and Christian content, the movie’s last moment is framed as partisan generosity.— Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 30 Apr. 2026
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In the nineteen-seventies, Franciscan University, a small school on a hill above the downtown, became a center for charismatic Catholicism, an expressive, theologically orthodox movement that paralleled the development of the evangelical Jesus People and secular hippie culture.— Emma Green, New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2026
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Dioceses across the country are reporting the highest amount of converts in decades, many of them drawn in by orthodox Catholic influencers.— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
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“Old-line.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/old-line. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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