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Around the same time, Donato discovered the Don Kelley Band at Robert's and was locked in on old country music.
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Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 20 Aug. 2025
In a video shared on X by the Tennessee Titans, the 40-year-old country star shared his latest health milestone while giving a motivational speech to the NFL team.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2025
The 56-year-old chain is inspired by old country stores and used to be decorated with brown-colored walls covered in antique farm tools and historical family portraits.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025
In a new episode of her Dumb Blonde podcast, the 45-year-old host (real name Alyssa DeFord) addressed why she hasn’t been seen publicly with her 40-year-old country star husband in recent months.
—Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 9 Aug. 2025
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Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 20 Aug. 2025
In a video shared on X by the Tennessee Titans, the 40-year-old country star shared his latest health milestone while giving a motivational speech to the NFL team.
—Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2025
The 56-year-old chain is inspired by old country stores and used to be decorated with brown-colored walls covered in antique farm tools and historical family portraits.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025
In a new episode of her Dumb Blonde podcast, the 45-year-old host (real name Alyssa DeFord) addressed why she hasn’t been seen publicly with her 40-year-old country star husband in recent months.
—Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 9 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for old country
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Refugeoly is designed to navigate your way from a country in conflict to a country that grants you asylum, essentially a new home.—
Lisa Deaderick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Sep. 2025
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The outpouring of support for Qatar after Israel’s attack on a Hamas compound in Doha was notable, given that many of the same countries had embargoed it only a few years ago.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The story follows a college student who returns to her hometown where a babysitter was recently brutally murdered.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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The first date is in Vancouver, and Xaviersobased will stop in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Detroit, and elsewhere, before wrapping things up, on December 18, with a hometown show at New York’s Webster Hall.—
Matthew Strauss,
Pitchfork,
19 Sep. 2025
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The key insight is that digital nativity doesn't equal AI readiness.—
Tarun Galagali,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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No matter her source, the world beyond the Dorf was always mediated, by time and human error; if the Apostles couldn’t agree on the nativity, Richie Mueller’s account of a ball python at the 4-H conference begged skepticism.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 Aug. 2025
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Diplomatically, Canada balanced between its mother country, the United Kingdom, and its southern neighbor, the emerging superpower.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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Since the condition of the Royal Navy was of prime importance to the British Parliament, during the colonial era that body passed several acts that sought to entice or compel colonists in British North America to produce naval stores for the benefit of the mother country.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2025
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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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Stowe, Vermont Residents of storybook-pretty Stowe are committed to maintaining the region’s rural roots, and visitors reap the benefits with a wealth of still-wild landscapes.—
Allison Tibaldi,
USA Today,
20 Sep. 2025
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Beyond television, Chase has returned to his stage roots with roles in the Broadway revivals of Kiss Me, Kate (2019) and Once Upon a Mattress (2024).—
Allison DeGrushe,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Sep. 2025
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“Old country.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/old%20country. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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