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Example sentences for: time-tested

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Lawyers always fall back on the time-tested everyone-deserves-a-lawyer thing, everyone-is-entitled-to-a-defense, but the truth is there's no excuse for what these lawyers say in court-- for which they never ever even seem to say they're sorry .
Why is such a time-tested device viewed with such utter revulsion?
X's story being picked up by, say, the Drudge Report , a British tabloid, and then the Washington Times --a time-tested spin cycle for dirty political rumors, particularly when they are damaging to Bill Clinton.
But the security of the world's food supply depends on an exquisite balance between new ideas and the intelligent use of time-tested resources.
Someone needs to speak to them in time-tested studio platitudes--to say that the script goes nowhere in the third act or that there are too many marginal characters.