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• s  showing signs of much wear or use
• s  repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

• When it comes to the holidays, I'm like the little old lady in the well-worn joke.
• So, maybe it's time to leave the well-worn tourist traps behind and seek out a little more genuineness on your next trip.
• What would become of the criminal population when stripped of its neighborhood affiliations, its drug suppliers and a well-worn black-market infrastructure?.

• banal
• commonplace
• hackneyed
• old-hat
• shopworn
• stock
• threadbare
• timeworn
• tired
• trite

News & Articles

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• 10 Best Family Cars For Fathers Day
  PORTLAND, Ore. (TheStreet) -- It's a long leap from a greeting card holiday to a bow-on-the-car occasion, but there are dads out there who wouldn't mind making it. Sorry, but if Mercedes Benz gets to make any old 1 percenter's Christmas a "December to Remember," there's no reason the fathers of America can't upgrade their well-worn family cars for something with a little more charisma. We're not ...
  June 14, 2013 - TheStreet.com
• Curse or coincidence? Scientists study Tornado Alley's past and future
  Do tornadoes follow well-worn tracks? Where do the deadliest twisters hit? Will climate change make such storms worse? Monday's devastating tornado in Oklahoma raises some questions for which scientists have ready answers, and others that could puzzle them for years to come:Was this tornado a repeat of a famous twister in 1999?For a time, Monday's storm followed a track that was similar to the ...
  June 12, 2013 - MSNBC
• Gazette.Net: Ask Liz: Are there standards for the statement
  NBC 4 consumer reporter Liz Crenshaw takes a scientific approach on this well-worn term. Question: Are there standards for the statement “clinically proven” that you see in ads for cosmetics and health products?
  June 11, 2013 - Gazette.net

Quotes

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• Frank Blake in KFOR
  We are seeing significant pressure on the cost side as the price of basic commodities goes up,CEO Frank Blake said on a May 20 earnings conference call. "There isn'ta well-worn path guiding us on what all these pressures will do to our...
• William Hague in Washington Post
  We have set the pace, made the news, won elections and topped the polls,Hague said. "So when some commentators write that the Conservative Party should simply stick to its well-worn grooves, I say they're wrong."
• Bert van Marwijk in The Associated Press
  When we allow ourselves to retreat into the tired, well-worn trenches of partisanship, when we fail to reach for common ground, when we are unable, in the words of President-elect Obama, to disagree without being disagreeable, we diminish our... Harry Reid http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGP_5PNs1MQ0kTh3aND3oL4AP8hsA Los Angeles Times http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-new-congress7-2009jan07,0,4479660.story&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEVKHoV62H4W-qtjrMo58UA21YqCQ Jan 6, 2009 109648 143642 well We play well," Netherlands coach Bert Van Marwijk said. "Spain plays well, but they are more attractive and this is where we want to get, too."