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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

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

Yago pivots quickly and handily from his old identity — chiropractors are officially useless now — as if captivity had awakened something paternal, domestic, and even upbeat in him.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 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