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Recent Examples of old country
Director Kim Jee-woon uses every trick in the haunted-house book when spinning the tale of two vulnerable sisters, their neglectful father, and their evil stepmother, all of whom are trapped together in a shabby (but beautifully filmed) old country house.
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Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
By way of comparison, the 82-year-old country singer Lee Greenwood, whom Speaker Johnson floated as a viable replacement candidate for the Super Bowl headliner gig, has racked up 96 million streams on the service.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Langley is a 26-year-old country singer from Alabama.
—Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2025
More than a thousand country music fans have signed a petition demanding that the NFL replace the Puerto Rican entertainer with 73-year-old country legend George Strait, a choice as likely as Engelbert Humperdinck.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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Katie Rife, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Oct. 2025
By way of comparison, the 82-year-old country singer Lee Greenwood, whom Speaker Johnson floated as a viable replacement candidate for the Super Bowl headliner gig, has racked up 96 million streams on the service.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Langley is a 26-year-old country singer from Alabama.
—Jake Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Oct. 2025
More than a thousand country music fans have signed a petition demanding that the NFL replace the Puerto Rican entertainer with 73-year-old country legend George Strait, a choice as likely as Engelbert Humperdinck.
—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for old country
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According to internal administration documents reviewed by The Associated Press, there are 47 third-country agreements at various stages of negotiation.—
STEPHEN GROVES,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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Indeed, each of these three countries have sought to offer support to Cuba in recent days.—
Sam Meredith,
CNBC,
14 Feb. 2026
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This new series for A Peace of My mind began during what Noltner thought would be downtime in his hometown.—
Derek James,
CBS News,
11 Feb. 2026
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His brother was representing a 25-year-old immigrant who was pulled over for driving under the influence, detained at Stewart Detention Center in their hometown of Lumpkin and was on the verge of getting deported.—
Christopher Daniel,
AJC.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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The prisoners built a nativity scene that members of the community visited on Christmas Eve.—
Kim Norvell,
Des Moines Register,
29 Jan. 2026
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St Peter’s Square has been decorated with a nativity scene from the Diocese of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno, in Campania, southwest Italy, and a 25-meter-tall Christmas tree from the Val d’Ultimo area in Bolzano, northern Italy.—
Christopher Lamb,
CNN Money,
25 Dec. 2025
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While July 4 is not a holiday in the United Kingdom, the long history of friendship as well as alliance between our two nations has removed any lingering friction from the successful efforts of colonials across the Atlantic to break away from the mother country.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Jan. 2026
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Even so, Maduro’s ouster gave her a lot of hope for her mother country.—
Andrea Castillo,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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The scene plays out like a Blighty version of A Few Good Men, with Dalton in the Tom Cruise role, deftly provoking Livingston into a confession.—
Jack King,
Vulture,
21 Aug. 2025
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According to The Associated Press, more than 29,000 people have hit the shores of Blighty this year on small boats, after over 46,000 last year.—
Adam Shaw,
Fox News,
8 Dec. 2023
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While neighboring vineyards resorted to grafting their vines onto pest-resistant American roots, DRC used various intensive strategies to keep its original European vines intact, at least until the 1940s.—
Pin Yen Tan 9 min ago,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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In 2017, McRae went back to her YouTube roots and uploaded a video of herself singing an original ballad.—
Janelle Ash,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Old country.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/old%20country. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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