old identity
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
"I think it's really important in that transition between young woman to mother that people are actually allowed to grieve the loss of their old identity."
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2019
Don Draper once spectacularly erased his old identity as Dick Whitman and chose a new one for himself.
From Slate ● May 28, 2013
Now it makes me want to talk louder, to be as far from that old identity and the pain that accompanies it as possible.
From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth
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