as in extinct
no longer existing
elderly people reminiscing about bygone fashions
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Recent Examples of bygone
Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
That’s the scene-setting intertitle that opens The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s extraordinary excavation of a bygone age of national repression that may or may not bear a striking resemblance to more recent ages of authoritarianism.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2025
Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 1 Dec. 2025
The film is also the director’s love letter to a bygone Los Angeles era, a lost world of louche glamor, with actors, directors, hippies, and hustlers roaming the city’s studio lots, canyons, and hills.
—Jay Glennie, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Highlights include an abstract documentary of a mother-daughter trip to Taiwan, an examination of war correspondents’ psyches, and a bygone public-radio show meant to promote reading.
—Benjamin Cannon, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
That’s the scene-setting intertitle that opens The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s extraordinary excavation of a bygone age of national repression that may or may not bear a striking resemblance to more recent ages of authoritarianism.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2025
Noun
For Venditti, that entails talking to numerous consultants and looking at as many reference materials — usually old photos, news clippings and documentaries — from that bygone era as possible.
—Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 1 Dec. 2025
The film is also the director’s love letter to a bygone Los Angeles era, a lost world of louche glamor, with actors, directors, hippies, and hustlers roaming the city’s studio lots, canyons, and hills.
—Jay Glennie, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bygone
Adjective
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Many hominids went extinct during this period, and being able to consume alcohol without adverse and/or toxic effects would have conferred a survival advantage.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Jan. 2026
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In 2017, winter steelhead populations at Oregon’s Willamette Falls seemed almost certain to soon go extinct, Michael Brown, the marine-mammal program leader at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, told me.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The low rates of the recent past make these homeowners reluctant to sell their properties, depriving the market of inventory.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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In Bug, Carrie Coon's Agnes White — an Oklahoma waitress too exhausted to outrun her past — faces a more persistent threat.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Chariot Equities, Crozer-Chester Medical Center's new owner, completed the purchase of the defunct hospital Wednesday in partnership with Allaire Health Services, following its parent company's bankruptcy filing, which led to the hospital's closure.—
Tom Ignudo,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Named after a now-defunct Houston theme park, Astroworld was both intimate and engineered for scale, marking the culmination of Scott’s early ascent and establishing him as one of the defining rap artists of his era.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
21 Jan. 2026
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In an idyllic Tuscan town, the life of Elisa (Matilde Gioli) is turned upside down when a childhood friend returns, reawakening feelings from yesteryear.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
27 Dec. 2025
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Ballard particularly likes historic hues – or even close matches to yesteryear’s colors (and bonus, the modern versions are lead-free).—
The Washington Post,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The Kendall Jenner summer school of style has steadily been banking the season’s buzziest trends: Sheer dresses and polka dots on the beach, the Gen-X boot and jean tuck, the ‘tomato girl’ aesthetic of summer’s yore even in the mix.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
25 July 2025
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Three sisters spun, in myth and lore, The Fates, the Norns, of ancient yore.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
30 Oct. 2024
Adjective
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Her impulse control is practically gone.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
PEOPLE,
21 Jan. 2026
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Clouds have evaporated into practically nothing and are expected to stay gone.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
14 Jan. 2026
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