While books and movies may be old hat for Crichton, having his own dinosaur species satisfies dreams he barely knew he had.

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For futures traders, understanding these terms may be old hat, but for the rest of us, the concept can be confusing and foreign.

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The result store cards, Karstadt-branded credit cards and direct marketing may be old hat in America or Britain, but in Germany they are still near-novelties.

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Matt Herman, a Republican whose family owns an RV dealership, said the fiscal fights are starting to be "old hat" with locals.

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According to Dr Lykken, some younger theoretical physicists are beginning to develop completely novel ideas because they believe supersymmetry to be "old hat" .

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But the idea of having my reality be augmented in such a useful way in some approximation of real time has already gone from being innovative to almost old hat.

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