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Bryan is a 28-year-old country singer-songwriter who released his fifth album, The Great American Bar Scene, in July 2024.
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Last Friday, the 31-year-old country star stopped her concert at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, to chastise fans who were yelling obscenities about the 39-year-old Australian singer.
—Ashley Hume, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2025
The 60-year-old country music icon shares two children — son Elijah Judd, 30, and daughter Grace Kelley, 28 — with her ex-husband, Arch Kelley III, but is now also raising her granddaughter.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
Sweeping, beautiful countryside rolls hill by hill in every direction, split into grids by natural hedgerows or manmade walls with the overgrown brickwork of an old country cottage.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
Last Friday, the 31-year-old country star stopped her concert at the Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, to chastise fans who were yelling obscenities about the 39-year-old Australian singer.
—Ashley Hume, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2025
The 60-year-old country music icon shares two children — son Elijah Judd, 30, and daughter Grace Kelley, 28 — with her ex-husband, Arch Kelley III, but is now also raising her granddaughter.
—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2025
Sweeping, beautiful countryside rolls hill by hill in every direction, split into grids by natural hedgerows or manmade walls with the overgrown brickwork of an old country cottage.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for old country
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But past Democratic and Republican presidents have used their parole authorities to allow people from countries in turmoil to come to the United States, including Soviet and Vietnamese citizens.—
Jay Weaver,
Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2025
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Trump and White House officials have expressed optimism that trade deals could be reached in the next few weeks, pointing to overtures from countries including Israel, South Korea, Japan and Vietnam.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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Yet these have decidedly not exclusively or even mostly targeted hardened criminals, as demonstrated by the saga of the family swept up in border czar Tom Homan’s own hometown upstate, or that 90% of the men sent to a Salvadoran prison don’t even have criminal records.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
11 Apr. 2025
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According to their wedding website, the couple's ceremony was a black-tie formal event in Nashville — located about 200 miles northeast of Odum's hometown of Millington, Tenn.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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In sum, despite recent claims questioning their nativity, extensive fossil and genetic evidence confirms that manatees have been present in Florida’s waters for thousands of years, with ancestors dating back over 12,000 years.—
Beth Brady,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Jan. 2025
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Over the Christmas season, as much of the world marked the birth of Jesus Christ, Islam’s cousin was killed in an airstrike less than 100 kilometers from Bethlehem, the city of Christ’s nativity.—
Daphne Ewing-Chow,
Forbes,
5 Jan. 2025
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Still, many colonists had not seriously considered separating from the mother country—until a history-making pamphlet was published in the City of Brotherly Love on January 10, 1776.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Jan. 2025
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Still, many colonists had not seriously considered separating from the mother country—until a history-making pamphlet was published in the City of Brotherly Love on January 10, 1776.—
Sonja Anderson,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 Jan. 2025
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This suggests affection for Scorsese’s western ran wide but not deep among the Blighty contingent, consistent with their history of only embracing films about America’s racial ills when they’re directed by Brits.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
19 Jan. 2024
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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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“Old country.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/old%20country. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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