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Meanings of shopworn in English
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
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Examples for "stock"
Examples for "stock"
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The stock, however, remains down some 30 percent so far this year.
2
Terrell said the company was open to a possible stock market listing.
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The recent stock market volatility has given Liberty pause, the source said.
4
So far, Trump's political proposals have largely helped the U.S. stock market.
5
A stock tracking facility, market reports and personal finance information are included.
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Of course, with the butchery, my hand is often tired these days.
2
In All-Ireland final week, you don't be long growing tired of words.
3
I'm tired of people saying 'I don't know if that is true'.
4
I am tired, in the heart, in the mind, in the body.
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But the four-bedroom house is tired and in need of much work.
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Though commonplace today, the technique was not widely used at the time.
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But conflict between the branches of government is commonplace in our history.
3
Since the collapse of Communism, of course, Hayek's arguments have become commonplace.
4
But the girl he loves shows him the beauty in the commonplace.
5
The English saying 'pride comes before a fall' reflects the commonplace occurrence.
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In spite of the threadbare phrases, genuine pain vibrated in her tone.
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The World Trade Center attack was a threadbare operation in many respects.
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In the unlimited leisure of the wilderness, discussion had been worn threadbare.
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Halfway across the threadbare lawn, a croaking voice erupted from the house.
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Then to give the following, and cease before the thought gets threadbare:
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The trite truth of the ratio between approach and enchantment amused him.
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Nor does the trite epigram touch the surface of the real mystery.
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Books could be written of the truth of this particular trite saying.
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It's trite to say, but I'll say it anyway: This is revolutionary.
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The rest took place with the trite rapidity of the equatorial latitudes.
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But do we really need the banal content of the average tweet?
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One reality is benign and banal; the other is invigorating and lethal.
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However, most importantly, we have confused the public with these banal comparisons!
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The democratic process does not discriminate between the banal and the dramatic.
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This fact was not banal at all, but unprecedented, shocking, and wrong.
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It shouldn't be necessary to repeat a list of hackneyed workplace virtues.
2
In the second place, the romantic is the opposite of the hackneyed.
3
This is a hackneyed, age-old argument used by gun-runners the world over.
4
The hackneyed words burned again with the freshness of their primal enthusiasm.
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We amuse him more than the hackneyed comrades he has worn out.
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Although quite clichéd, no two days are the same at the galleries.
2
I try not to repeat historical spaces as that can become clichéd.
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A clichéd response to a husband's infidelity, yes, but oh so satisfying.
4
It sounded as clichéd in French as it would have in English.
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They should leave their clichéd rhetoric and male-bashing propaganda at home.
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Their escorts in varied suits of timeworn finery, the prisoners in rags.
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Like all the others, it was completely intact, if a little timeworn.
3
That was another timeworn statement, but it served its purpose admirably.
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Soon, Fred was busy deploying that timeworn bureaucratic weapon, the memo.
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She crashed down onto the timeworn concrete floor, grazing her hands and wrists.
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And Jove answered, My child, Trito-born, take heart.
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Tritos only has what we've given him.
3
Tritos was still under the barn.
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Tritos is our experiment.
5
Tritos' usual smile dampened somewhat as he answered, "My father is dead and I have not seen my mother in some time."
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The activities of women in the church usually follow along well-worn paths.
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DINING:Looking for some alternatives to the well-worn staples of the Christmas-Day table?
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In order to reach Switzerland, the tourist has many well-worn routes available.
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J.J. closed his rule book, slipped it in his well-worn calfskin briefcase.
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I have to take little steps and to keep in well-worn paths.
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It may seem weird to pour so much money into old-hat tech.
Usage of shopworn in English
1
His tone changed, became less puckish; he elegized diversity with a shopworn .
2
There's the shopworn military cliche about every soldier being a sensor.
3
Instead, he attacked Obama's healthcare law with shopworn Republican campaign themes.
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Chuckling owners trade these quips, each as shopworn as the tools scattered about.
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They age badly for one thing and quickly look shopworn.
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Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics.
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Even in these shopworn quotations the power still remains.
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I did not want to have a shopworn phrase.
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Mr. Benson commented on the cheesecake, and Doctor Papineau chimed in with his shopworn joke.
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She sank into a chair, looking a bit shopworn.
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They were all a little shopworn and weathered, with narrow windows and flimsy iron balconies.
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Go into any rental store's cult section and you'll find shopworn copies of numerous Meyer films.
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He was fat and looked shopworn around the nose and mouth as though he had hayfever.
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But it was very deeply buried, that ragged, shopworn decency-deeplyenough he had no difficulty ignoring it.
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They're a bit shopworn, probably-butwe're considerably better off with 'em in our hands than in hers.
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Such a simple, brown hat she found, a little shopworn; the long, warm coat she bought matched perfectly.
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