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old identity

British  

noun

  1. a person known for a long time in the one locality

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Did that mean you were going to work with your old identity?

From Slate ● Jun. 2, 2023

By the time of the Perth and Kinross by-election, Scotland was rediscovering an old identity.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2023

And reversing that course and rediscovering some of their old identity may be as important as anything else for the Seahawks on Thursday.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022

Watering the plant, as small an act as it was, connected me to a core part of my old identity and taught me I could still be a caregiver.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 11, 2022

It was annoying that he had hit upon an old identity and I shook my head, seeing him purse his lips and eye me sharply.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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