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Synonyms and antonyms of the word: decades-old

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A decades-old depository of millions of tons of garbage, sprawled over more than 350 acres, it’s an artificial overlook visible from miles away.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/17/nyregion/new-york-landfill-seneca-meadows.html

Advocates for people with disabilities have praised the administration’s expansion of services, but they argued it hasn’t been enough to correct decades-old problems.

Source: https://chronicleillinois.com/government/illinois-to-relocate-at-least-half-of-current-residents-at-choate/

Allan Sinclair performed on the bagpipes while crossing the Penny Bridge in a decades-old tradition.

Source: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/moray/5377660/fisherman-cast-their-lines-as-the-river-spey-officially-opens-for-the-fishing-season/

But after learning in the summer that state government owed taxpayers nearly $3 billion in rebates under a decades-old law, House and Senate Democrats put their proposal on ice and then ultimately backed away entirely.

Source: https://bankerandtradesman.com/mariano-leaps-back-on-tax-relief-bandwagon/

" Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are under preliminary investigation at the Federal Trade Commission over potential price discrimination in the soft drink market as the agency looks to revive a decades-old, but largely dormant law banning the practice,"

Source: https://wibx950.com/federal-trade-commission-pepsi-and-coke/

Domtar announced last week that starting next month, it is indefinitely idling its decades-old plant on the Spanish River, putting 450 jobs in jeopardy.

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/espanola-domtar-paper-mill-shutdown-town-council-1.6965027?cmp=rss

He has already drawn national criticism — undeserved, however — for the delay in signing Jackson, and the Ravens can’t get away from that decades-old problem of not having a good No. 1 wide receiver.

Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/04/11/mike-preston-odell-beckham-jr-is-a-gamble-the-ravens-had-to-make-commentary/

High winds uprooted a decades-old tree that Ron Whitfield planted in his Glen Ellyn front yard nearly 52 years ago, when he and his family moved in.

Source: https://abc7chicago.com/illinois-tornado-damage-today-warrenville-touchdown-chicago/13506149/

In a 7-2 ruling on June 15, it threw out a challenge to decades-old federal standards that give preferences to Native Americans and tribal members in the adoption or foster care placements of Native American children.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/affirmative-action-student-debt-rulings-loom-at-us-supreme-court/article_9728b593-8f1e-5c1e-8687-bdd383b44f12.html

In a significant breakthrough for a decades-old cold case, authorities in Colorado have finally identified a homicide victim whose body was discovered near the state’s border with Wyoming in 1987.

Source: http://davidsonian.com/2023/11/16/colorado-cold-case-1987-homicide-victim-identified-36-years-later-police-continue-search-for-answers/

In fact, Dalits as a homogeneous political group is a decades-old stereotype that needs correction and update in the light of new changes happening in Indian politics.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/maya-modi-and-azad-dalit-politics-in-the-time-of-hindutva-book-review-8693908/

In recent years, cafes and breweries have cropped up downtown Farmington alongside decades-old businesses that trade in Native American crafts from silver jewelry to wool weavings.

Source: https://ktar.com/story/5496001/police-at-least-3-dead-more-wounded-in-new-mexico-shooting/

Magazine articles about Tupac Shakur and his death were among the items seized by police from a Las Vegas-area home in connection with the rapper's decades-old murder case, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation told ABC News.

Source: https://abc13.com/tupac-investigation-las-vegas-search-warrant/13523043/

On a small road in Altamont, a white sign marks an entrance to NextEra’s Golden Hills wind project, where the company recently replaced decades-old turbines with new, larger models.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/01/solar-farms-renewable-energy-killing-birds/672877/?utm_source=feed

Range Rover's fifth generation progresses the maker's decades-old design principles.

Source: https://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/motoring/latest-rangie-still-a-standard-bearer-for-class-c-12761763

Republican Sen. Brent Taylor, the sponsor of the bill passed in April, argued that under the previous law, district attorneys could be unfamiliar with the sometimes decades-old death penalty cases under appeal.

Source: https://ktar.com/story/5497172/death-row-inmate-challenges-new-tennessee-post-conviction-law/

The combination of decades-old property values and skyrocketing home sale prices pushed Houlton’s property ratios — assessed value compared with sales in the market — below the state’s minimum for a full state exemption, Duff said.

Source: https://thecounty.me/2023/09/14/news/new-property-valuation-doubled-some-houlton-property-assessments/

The decades-old bleachers, while structurally sound, do not meet current safety codes or Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, according to Leister.

Source: https://tbrnewsmedia.com/port-jeff-school-board-debates-bleacher-cost-at-public-work-session/

The decades-old building has deteriorated due to a lack of attention from the school district and its remote location.

Source: https://www.kunc.org/regional-news/2023-06-29/duck-valley-indian-reservation-to-receive-64-million-for-new-school-construction