Definition of "time-tested" []

• Proved effective over a long period of time: a time-tested recipe. (adjective)

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• "A time-tested method to protect assets as people age is starting to blow up on baby boomers."
• "Here are some examples of the time-tested arguments we're hearing from Big Oil:"
• "Investors are abandoning the time-tested "stocks for the long run" optimism that dominated since the late 1980s."