warhorse
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Synonyms & Antonyms for warhorse
Synonyms
doyen, old hand, old-timer, stager, vet, veteran
Antonyms
beginner, colt, fledgling, freshman, greenhorn, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, novice, recruit, rookie, tenderfoot, tyro
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After Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 general election, Sanders is back, running as a socialist warhorse, promising endless amounts of free stuff, with those promises suddenly being taken seriously. — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, "Victor Davis Hanson: Why socialism, and why now?," 30 Aug. 2019 Few summer orchestral concerts have a program as smartly curated as this one — absolutely accessible, with nary a warhorse in sight. — Peter Dobrin, https://www.inquirer.com, "Classical summer: Bradley Cooper, Harry Potter, piano stars, Yannick debuts at a spiffed-up Mann Center," 5 June 2019 There are the beloved symphonic warhorses, the kind plentifully represented on Chicago Symphony Orchestra programs. — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, "Semyon Bychkov electrifies Orchestra Hall with blazing CSO account of Tchaikovsky's 'Manfred'," 4 May 2018 At New York cultural institutions, audiences often come for the familiar: A program of symphonic masterpieces, a full-length ballet or an operatic warhorse. — Charles Passy, WSJ, "The Park Avenue Armory Offers a Canvas for Larger-Than-Life Productions," 16 July 2018 In contrast to the aging Christian-right warhorse Akin, Hawley is 30-something and whip-smart, a Yale Law School grad who clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts. — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, "Missouri GOP Senate Hopeful Goes Off the Deep End on the Sexual Revolution and Human Trafficking," 1 Feb. 2018 Presented with a phalanx of warhorses like that, you can be forgiven for thinking there must be a glue factory not far down the road. — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, "WLUP nostalgia: It's hard to miss what's no longer there," 7 Mar. 2018 Predictability is their business, and warhorses are their stock-in-trade. — Paul Hodgins, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Opera NEO blazes new trails on a shoestring, focusing on education and unpredictability," 1 July 2018 But Rostenkowski was also a Chicago Democratic Machine warhorse, sent to Washington as a young man by the legendary Mayor Richard J. Daley. — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, "Silence in Chicago’s mayoral race: The missing Latino candidate and the Sun-Times chairman’s deal with Rahm’s money man," 12 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'warhorse.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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warhorse
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