In tiny Uruguay, sandwiched between them, it is old hat.
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LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Fiscal responsibility is old hat in Britain.
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Denim as the ultimate American fabric is pretty old hat.
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I'm not just like, oh, old hat — I know that.
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Complaining that fans just don't appreciate Rigondeaux's style is old hat.
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At this point, sartorial controversies are, ahem, old hat for Trump.
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Trump's tortured relationship with facts, meanwhile, is old hat by now.
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For Ballard, "it was old hat" to drive in the video.
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Lady Olenna plays along (this intrigue is old hat) and leaves.
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Concerns about Europe falling behind in technology, too, are old hat.
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In an interview with Mic, Liu explained her "chinning" is old hat.
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This kind of thing is both very difficult and surprisingly old hat.
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Still, some parts of the speech came off as rather old hat.
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SOME WOULD-BE usurpers of Britain's dominant banks think branches are old hat.
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But setbacks in moments of triumph are old hat to the Texas Rangers.
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All the political shenanigans might be old hat to connoisseurs of Washington dysfunction.
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Smash cut to 2018, where this kind of story seems relatively old-hat.
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The objective is to focus on this & that, Mind wearing its favorite old hat.
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It will soon be as old hat as absolute monarchy seems to us today.
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Yeah, it's getting old hat, but this one's got the Boss ... so, pretty cool.
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Like grüner veltliner, albariño now feels well established, maybe even a little old hat.
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Bill Gates is celebrating his 64th birthday today in a 20-year-old hat.
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Though honestly, in a digital world, such heritage divisions are increasingly — well, old hat.
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CARPOOLING APPS to connect passengers with drivers going the same way are old hat.
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Hillary Clinton's championing of children within public policy circles was old hat for her.
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"The whole domineering priest-nun-punishment fantasy is kind of an old hat," she says.
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But by the time of the building's completion in 1972, brutalism was already old hat.
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In fact, they are rather old hat when it comes to the White House occupant.
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Online shopping caters to new shoppers' behaviour Ikea is old hat at delivery in Singapore.
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Some of his arguments may seem old hat, but that doesn't mean they're wrong, either.
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Farhad: Because I live right near Waymo's headquarters, this is all old hat for me.
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The superhero who must hide his nature from the authorities is old hat in comics.
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And, possibly, old-hat assumptions about what we really want from our most private of purchases.
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And encoding plants or yeast to pump out molecules is fairly old hat science by now.
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When it comes to Microsoft products, the likes of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are old hat.
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The avant-garde, at least as purveyed here, is way too old hat to capture it.
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Declaring failure on a huge telecommunications acquisition has become old hat for Comcast CEO Brian Roberts.
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This makes his 21st No. 1 single, but don't think Aldean is treating it as old hat.
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Some of these might be old hat to you, some might be new, but all are useful.
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Meredith and Olivia made their merch debuts last year ... so this is old hat for those cats.
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Although radar and even LiDAR are old hat by now, there continues to be innovation in sensors.
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Now, Eric is back at it, but eating just one foodstuff at a time is old hat.
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So he rummaged around the band room and found an old hat that he hoped would work.
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The subject feels truly fresh and transgressive, while nubility is beginning to seem like, well, old hat.
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Coding class initiatives are old hat for Cook—he's been pushing Swift coding classes for some time now.
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It's all old hat in the age of Grindr and Scruff—but back then, it was a revelation.
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Yes, this double nomination business is old hat for the actress, and it's a hat she wears well.
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When the brothers hired him to take over, the brand had become "old hat" in Mr Lagerfeld's words.
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"If one thinks back to that period, figurative art was seen to be old hat," Mr. Brooks said.
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When she was pregnant, Satya Twena, a 36-year-old hat maker and fashion designer in Ojai, Calif.
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I had a bunch of dumb, hoaky names like Old Hat or King Bee, because I'm on King street.
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It's old hat by now to decry the gap between the lot of the 99 percent and 1 percent.
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It's pretty old hat at this point to critique the bland, general sameness that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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It is also, according to Jim Frost, product manager at Tomra, the company that makes the thing, old hat.
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In the financial district of Manhattan, the symbolic heart of commerce, conversions of grand bank buildings are old hat.
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For ISIS, this insurgent methodology is old hat, and they have a proven track record at it, analysts warn.
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Creator and star Pamela Adlon plays Sam, whose attempts to balance her career and family could feel old-hat.
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"He started to seem old hat, as almost every artist does after they speak to their moment," Mr. Bland said.
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Image: GoogleBut a lot of these features are old hat, so there isn't exactly anything out of the ordinary here.
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Britain privatised large swathes of its economy, declared "manufacturing" old hat and gambled its future on services, particularly financial ones.
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Unclear.This Facial Recognition Software Signals the End of the Security GuardMinority Report references are old hat in the tech world.
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Motifs that gain in popularity quickly become old hat, leaving the door open for fresher, even stranger memes to emerge.
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She may be a new name, but the footwear designer Mercedes Castillo is old hat when it comes to shoes.
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But the process is old hat to a sometimes invisible group of people who have seen it all: the movers.
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If VR continues to grow, that prospect may at some point become old hat, but right now it's engrossingly unique.
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You'd think observations about what it's like to live with the opposite sex would be pretty much old hat by now.
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One of the main arguments of the leave campaign was that, in a global world, trading-bloc Europe was old hat.
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It was definitely a Hill-friendly crowd, but still -- 18 months later, this gag might be the definition of old hat.
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This is, of course, old hat to a savvy vet like McGregor but the basics are the basics for a reason.
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That said, while the passage of time has rendered some of the pieces old hat, others are edged with retrospective significance.
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Hastily written to express the author's outrage at the new administration, it was thin as drama and old-hat as polemic.
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The It bag may be more like an old hat these days — at least when it comes to fashion's front row.
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Now it's old hat: Since the fall of 2016, tech leaders have been shuttling back and forth to the U.S. Capitol.
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While plenty of companies are rushing to bring fully wireless earbuds to the market, the phenomenon is already old hat for Earin.
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So this whole process isn't without precedent, though some of you may be surprised that asteroid mining is essentially old hat now.
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Maybe this is old hat to handheld players—I somehow missed every version of the DS—but for me it's new and novel.
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Pairing up with other young adults also makes it easier to sight-see and visit places that longtime residents might find old hat.
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Eugene's an old hat at this, so he had it under control, but I think Dan was a little nervous, a little excited.
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"This idea that the rat is old hat was startling, and I was like, 'Wow, I'm going to learn something," Ms. Jacobs said.
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It, too, is a topic some readers may consider old hat, but the studies are irresistible, and they come in an almost infinite variety.
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It's an old hat in the TV world, a parlor trick that dates back at least as far as Kids Say the Darndest Things.
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This Top Dog spot is old hat for the Lab; the breed has ranked as the AKC's most popular breed for 26 consecutive years.
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And it should be old hat for Mr. Mattos, whose cooking at Isa a few years back was at times interesting to a fault.
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In this day and age, it's almost old hat for gay characters on popular TV to trend more toward Homer Simpson than Waylon Smithers.
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CreditCreditNathanael Turner for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — When David Hockney began his career, figurative painting was considered old hat and even retrogressive.
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Luckily there's nothing unique about this scam, the usual rules for protecting yourself from email scams apply and, hopefully, are old hat at this point.
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New Wi-Fi features: Wi-Fi may seem like an old hat, but Android O is adding support for a few (relatively) new connectivity features.
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The avant-garde has a way of becoming old hat every quarter-century or so, as history sifts the culture to see what's worth keeping.
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While English drawing rooms might be an old hat, it would be great to see Anderson turn his head to the seedier side of Britain.
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Choking, slapping, facials, and golden showers have become standard and inevitably once they become old hat, we'll up the ante even further to other extremes.
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But isn't calling for politics to be run more like a business a bit old hat for a party that presents itself as a change-agent?
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But then something happened among the high-earning metropolitan elite: that idea of ultra-smooth sexuality, skinny ties, scooters, and chillout compilations suddenly became old hat.
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Click here to view original GIFSkating a drained in-ground pool is old hat by now, so an entire waterpark was the obvious logical step forward.
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Obama said he benefited from that culture, that he was the new guy to Clinton's old hat when they battled in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.
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The Sarbanes-Oxley principles are old hat to most boards, but those boards are now struggling with a new and more complex wave of regulatory enforcement.
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It was hardly old hat for Kent — even if this was his third Preakness victory — but it was the first Triple Crown win for his brother.
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" Adam Coren, a 26-year-old hat salesman and artist, said, "When I was 2, I made my mom buy me dress shoes instead of sneakers.
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Live video from the Moon may be old hat, but it's going to be a bit different from that grainy black-and-white business in 1969.
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Many policies now being championed by President Trump and Congressional leaders seem old hat to Texans: defunding public education, going after immigrants, shredding the safety net.
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You think you're old hat because you're doing well, that you're so mature and so advanced and so over everything, but you haven't done everything. Yet.
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Born in 1939, McCoury is old enough to know that jokes about wimmin's hats were old hat by 1950 and probably weren't funny to begin with.
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But this chapter-closing "Oh no, he's dead" cliffhanger is old hat on Game of Thrones, where characters frequently appear to be dead, and then resurface later.
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Sponsored locations are old hat for Niantic, which used the same business model for its prior game Ingress—with popular Japanese convenience chain Lawson among the partners.
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This is old hat for Kingston, who was sued by a Florida jeweler in March, and also ordered to pay another NYC jeweler for an unpaid bill.
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Nostalgia for the New Hollywood may be old hat by now, but Mr. De Palma's recollections are so vivid and warm that ancient war stories seem fresh.
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But for anyone interested in songs about transparency and secrets who was listening to rap radio in 2009, what Yo Gotti accomplished this year was old hat.
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"In the age of conceptual art, he was a peripheral figure, by his own admission: A figurative painter when figuration was considered old hat," Ms. Graustark said.
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Sure, the moon has illuminated the night sky for eons and possibly allowed for the emergence of life on Earth, but it's also kind of old hat.
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Image: Screengrab via YouTubeThe classic US stereotype of attempted Iranian ideological indoctrination via chants of "Death to America" and such has been old hat for quite some time.
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Carlson's argument that "market capitalism is not a religion" is of course old hat on the left, but it's also been bubbling on the right for years now.
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More troubling than the janky tech is the muffed rationale; artists' reconstructions of traditional cinema were old hat 20 years ago (think of Douglas Gordon and Pierre Huyghe).
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Recruiters and hiring managers see scores of them every day, and the buzzwords and resume hacks that may have wowed them in the past are now old hat.
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In the case of World of Warcraft, for example, I've written novels filling in gaps between games, so this is something that was kind of old hat to me.
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Lasers may be a bit old hat these days when it comes to large-scale visual entertainment, but there was a time when they were on the bleeding edge.
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The trend has been around long enough that some of the names, like albariño from Spain or grüner veltliner from Austria, are considered old hat by serious wine enthusiasts.
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The premise is old-hat, but if you're an Elba fan and enjoy comedies about the music business, parenting (or lack thereof) and bachelorhood, you should give this a try.
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There was an irony here: By the 1930s, the once-revolutionary style had come to be, by the standards of international art fashion, old hat, ho-hum, its origins half-forgotten.
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You'd think that after six seasons of bloodshed on Game of Thrones, it'd all be old hat to actress Lena Headey, who plays the scheming Cersei Lannister on the HBO show.
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And while sporting daring hair shades is old hat for the chameleon set — hello, Kylie Jenner and her plethora of wigs — the latest fans are all new to the colorful side.
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Last year, the mother of three recycled an 11-year-old hat with a military-inspired black wool-silk coat with gold buttons from Dolce & Gabbana for the Remembrance Day Service.
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When I ask her if it's difficult to leave the country given her formerly incarcerated status, she shrugs it off—at this point, the thought of getting arrested is old hat.
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If you're a nervous new baker looking for guaranteed results or an old hat looking to tidy up your techniques, her book will become a well-used addition in your collection.
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While the idea that we're all connected may seem old hat in the age of the internet, fascination with it has yielded its own rich web of associations over the years.
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The good-natured tension and ribbing between the two old "boys" is still there — and still a bit old hat — but there is a new dynamic that juices the entertainment factor.
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If judicial consideration of the president's reasons is old hat, it would break new ground for the Supreme Court to invalidate a presidential action on the basis of improper and unconstitutional motives.
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And the partisan arguments around trackballs, once a defining debate of the Windows era, now seem a bit old-hat considering that touchscreens have taken over so much of our computing experience.
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One beautiful young lady, for example, likes to get "dressed up special on the weekends": I liked to wear a trench coat, an old hat like a detective's, and large, tinted eyeglasses.
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How Wolfson made what is in fact an animatronic doll appear real is a mystery typical of new art's galloping technological novelties, and one likely to become old hat in short order.
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This may seem like old hat to some, but given that there were only three black starting QBs in the 503 Super Bowls before that, it still strikes me as something worth celebrating.
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Read more:It looks like Jeff Bezos is about to lose his spot as the world's richest person to Bill GatesBill Gates is celebrating his 64th birthday today in a 20-year-old hat.
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I remember when I lived in Paris in the '80s and '90s how shocked I was that feminism and gay liberation were considered old hat, fads that had prevailed only in the '70s.
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While United is the first major airline based in the United States to essentially start charging for its overhead bin space, charging for carry-on bags is old hat on low-cost airlines.
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The use of infrared light in gadgets like remote controls is old hat, but companies like Facebook and SpaceX are currently experimenting with lasers to beam internet access from satellites down to Earth's surface.
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So much of what goes on seems old hat to them, including greeting Tina Turner, Truman Capote, and Andy Warhol backstage as well as the deafening noise that erupts every time they walk onstage.
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No one on the train seemed very excited we had traversed the Chunnel, either — perhaps they were Chunnel-travel veterans, and this was "old hat" (rather routine, to use some English slang) to them.
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What shows up there are the Xbox 360s, the Playstation 2s, the Nintendo Wiis, and lots of old laptops that have decayed in value as their technology has turned from essential to old-hat.
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And even if well-intentioned, it's this kind of thinking that perpetuates this kind of fraught historicizing, in turn perpetuating old-hat ideas—*cough, copyright*—that stifle innovation while generating friction between sexes and identities.
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The broad appeal of modern cafes like U Kubistu, and the wider availability of better-quality coffee in Slovakia's capital, may seem old hat to urban dwellers long used to caffeine options on every block.
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Schwartz's editing techniques may seem old hat to some 21st-century viewers, but her videos still consistently compel; many of them get their charge from familiar, organic-looking material manipulated to form highly sensory experiences.
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Outdoor games at eccentric locations are old hat now, but Gretzky wasn't supposed to play in this one, having hinted that an alumni appearance for the Oilers earlier in the year was his last game ever.
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EditorsNote: resending to ensure delivery to all clients Betts, Kimbrel send Red Sox past Mariners SEATTLE — Another go-ahead home run in the ninth inning was old hat for the Boston Red Sox on Monday night.
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While it may be somewhat old hat to use the trope of AI to ask the question of, "Who are the real humans?" in Analogue, Love tweaks that approach to take a sideways glance at heteronormativity.
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It's gotten a lot better (Apple's depth-detecting units probably help a lot), but the idea of tying a face-tracking system, whatever fancy name you call it, in to the image-capture process is old hat.
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Because live music is embarrassing and old hat and it makes your back hurt and there's always sad blokes stood behind kissing couples and everyone smells like old beer and unwashed tote bags and, well, fuck that.
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Clete Blakeman Forced To Attend 313-Week Coin Flip Seminar Sure, there were a couple fun "what the hell is a football catch?" moments this weekend, but that's old hat when it comes to NFL officiating fuck-uppery.
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In a sense, Apple's hampered the 8 a bit with the mere existence of the X. It's pulled back the curtain and showed us a future in which the home button and bezels are old hat for iOS.
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It can be hard to tell whether the current obsession with the lifestyles of the rich and famous — now often referred to as Kardashian Syndrome — is old hat, or a sign of something seriously wrong with our society.
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To me, they represented the next generation of polyamorous practitioners in an ecosystem of millennials delaying marriage and children, and for whom terms like "friends with benefits" and other casual relationships were old hat by the end of college.
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In St. Louis, development officials are repurposing a century-old hat factory into a space for small manufacturers to bring jobs back downtown, while Baltimore has committed $500 million to a private-led overhaul of an old industrial zone.
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Thankfully creating the appearance of shading in 1-bit imagery is old hat for computer graphics, and an algorithm dithers and tweaks the picture so that more or fewer dots in various patterns create the illusion of a wider palette.
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The funny thing is, the movie didn't star Robert Downey, Jr. The funny thing is, the movie didn't star Robert Downey, Jr. It's pretty old hat at this point to critique the bland, general sameness that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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Whether it would have made a difference had voters known about the payoff to Stormy (as opposed to Trump's lasciviousness, which was old hat by then) is beyond my powers to discern, and anyone who offers an answer is only guessing.
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SATURDAY PUZZLE — Hopefully you don't feel like the themeless Saturday puzzle can be old hat, but if you do, Sam Trabucco has slipped in a sneaky theme today to shake things up, or shake us down, depending on your solving experience.
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While the majority of what you see at major opera houses today will still be old hat, the digital revolution has paved the way for new voices and a diversification of social perspectives to make their way into the field.
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As dazzlingly directed by Sam Mendes, this sprawling portrait of a rural Irish family during the Troubles makes singularly dexterous use of a basic tool often considered old hat in the theater these days: a juicy, suspenseful and impeccably orchestrated plot.
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You want to look closely for things that date you or make you look stale: old skills, an accomplishment that has been surpassed by a bigger one, and old-hat resume clutter, such as the availability of references or objectives.
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" Or in the words of Terry Farley: "It's snapshot of a golden bygone era, when to most people it was new and fresh and its ideals of brotherhood, spirituality and peace and love were not seen as soppy, or old hat.
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Maybe, but it is also possible that fewer coordinated inauthentic behaviorists were particularly interested in investing that much effort in a midterm election, or that 2016-style shenanigans are just kind of old hat after two years of everyone shouting about it.
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It may seem old hat to Valley-dwellers who see Google's self-driving cars zooming around the streets of Mountain View, but different vehicles, with different purposes, in different countries, following different traffic rules may as well be a whole different industry.
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In a round of Axios emails to tech analysts, investors and professors, we heard the broad observation that we are at peak smartphone because of market saturation, and that the device as we precisely know and use it may in fact be soon old hat.
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But tricking politicians into embarrassing themselves on-camera is old hat for Mr. Cohen; the British comedian has been doing it for two decades, usually in the guise of his patois-spouting B-boy persona, Ali G, and occasionally as his characters Borat or Brüno.
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I thought I'd struck gold with my original clue for 11-Down ("'Family Matters' central character"), but the whole "character" bit of wordplay for capitalized entries is basically old-hat at this point, so the revised clue referencing the Gmail logo is a nice alternate.
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FROM PEN: Christie Brinkley's Daughter Sailor on Following in Her Mother's Footsteps While modeling the suit might have been old hat for Graham, who made history as the first size-16 model to ever be on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit, this shoot was particularly cool.
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To her, the new Gucci — the one that professes love for his girlfriend, the one that eats kale (if she prepares it), the one that smiles easily and speaks in funny accents, the one that sings R&B songs into his phone camera — is old hat.
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Luckily there are a lot of policies on offer, from tax lawyers and economists and other wonks, that are up to the challenge: Most of these ideas are old hat among tax lawyers and economists, and some are embraced by heterodox Democrats in the House and Senate.
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Bieber made sure to keep Baldwin's day as special as possible by showering her with emotion and PDA (which is old hat for the couple), singing her "Happy Birthday," and, of course, celebrating the classic first-married-birthday rite of shoving his wife's face into her birthday cake.
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If such inflammatory Trump comments are either muted, or simply seen as old hat by the time of the election, and if Clinton has her current lead in the polls, it is possible that Trump-hating turnout might not be as high as many currently expect it to be.
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But cartridges, and 16bit machines in general, were already old hat by Challenge's UK release in 1995—the age of the PlayStation was upon us, and the limited-palette FMV sequences looked ancient beside the bright colors of both Sony's breakthrough system and the Sega's own Saturn console.
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Andrew Barker, Variety:: His performance here is no better and no worse than in his previous two or three outings, though what once was a bracingly anarchic approach is starting to feel a bit old hat, like a standup comic rehashing vintage punchlines for cheers of recognition, rather than laughs.
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"Of course everyone can bring up whatever issue they want, but this question of gender neutrality is an old hat — I remember when we discussed it in the 1980s," said Annette Trabold, who works for the Institute for the German Language, a state-funded body that studies contemporary usage of German.
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In other words, the link between fascist, racist sentiments in Nazi Germany and similar ideas as they surfaced in America (even just a few years after the fall of the Third Reich and the end of World War II) were too worn and "old hat" to make an impression on the audience.
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Lacking the dark storytelling that Christopher Nolan and Zack Snyder brought to Batman and Superman, the wiseass edginess of Deadpool, or the prom-king popularity of the Avengers, this band of mutants can't help but feel old-hat; the first film came out 16 years ago, which in blockbuster terms is ancient history.
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In an era when flash memory and solid state drives are the hippest, newest technologies on the block, the hard drive feels a little old hat, even as it constantly becomes cheaper—you can buy a 1-terabyte hard drive, infinitely more than the enterprise could have imagined 60 years ago, for like fifty bucks.
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These sorts of hoaxes are old hat for social media, which has carried everything from Hillary Clinton allegedly posing beside a confederate flag, photos of Trump made to look either thinner or more rotund, edited video of Trump making a weird snake noise, and a host of anti-Clinton conspiracies about the then-candidates mental and physical health.
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SO YOU WONDER, AND IF I PUT MY OLD HAT ON AS A FINANCIAL MARKET ANALYST, I'M LOOKING AT THAT – THIS MARKET AND THE ECONOMY AND THINKING, THE SMART MONEY WILL BUY ON THE DIPS HERE BECAUSE THE ECONOMY IS AS STRONG AS AN OX. EVANS: IS THE PRESIDENT -- HAVE YOU HEARD HIM COMMENT ON THE MARKET WEAKNESS, PETER?
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The former congressman allegedly sent a bunch of flirty DMs to a "busty brunette," including one of him taking off his shirt (eh), several close-ups of his tighty-whities featuring the outlines of his weiner (old hat, still gross), and one of his dad abs and his bulge while he was in bed with his infant son (father of the year material).
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She's helping out at a guesthouse, making breakfast for everyone in the morning and doing the dishes after meals, and she makes it clear that even the parts of her job that might seem onerous to us are old hat for her: When her kindly boss Nella informs Elena that every morning, she'll have to take her bed apart and store it, and then reconstruct it at night, Elena just smiles and responds that she does the same at home.
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So breaking it down, the Trump administration is making at least three arguments: 1) Trump didn't take Obama seriously on Flynn because Obama had personal reasons to be mad at Flynn; 2) it's all Obama's fault for hiring Flynn in the first place, which gave Trump every reason to trust Flynn; and 3) Trump thought Obama was joking, This type of contradictory reasoning (which Freud called "kettle logic") is old hat for Trump and now seems to be the fallback position of his staffers as well.
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It's not just the clean, hard facts that you understood, in the car, and that were so threadbare and old hat that almost anyone could have recited them, beginning with the use of chemicals that sparked dopamine production and lodged themselves in organic compounds called receptors, and then from there took over what was originally a unique story—the Hudson River house, the art work, his stone-carved faces in the front yard, the view of the river from his back patio, his name, Frank, the minutiae of his story—and transmuted it into a clichéd tale that changed only in the terms that were used to describe it, so that those who were once known as mad, Skid Row bums, stumblebums and drunkards and junkies were now seen as diseased victims who might be treated.
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