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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

Los Angeles, he said, needs to let go of its old identity and see itself as a city, not as a disparate collection of neighborhoods, suburbs and urban centers.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2021

Ben, it’s important to strip yourself of your old identity entirely, so you can commit yourself to a new one.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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