whilom

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for whilom
Adjective
  • The funding amounts approved for the 2025-26 school year are $6,864 per student and $7,627 for each former recipient of the Succeed Scholarship, according to the Education Department.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The journalists were among 15 people arrested during the July 17 demonstration held in support of Imam Ayman Soliman, an Egyptian immigrant and former Cincinnati Children's chaplain who was detained by ICE several days before.
    Quinlan Bentley, Cincinnati Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Worried that Dessalines’s enemies might eventually force upon him the same fate suffered by his erstwhile friend and ally, Christophe refused to be sworn into office.
    Marlene L. Daut September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Being able to generate code was finally getting a chance to shine in the bright lights of another erstwhile reason to use generative AI and LLMs.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The suspect, identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was arrested and charged with capital murder.
    Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • That Tamra and Gretchen are both doing the same thing, trafficking in old rumors and nastiness not about the husband, as Meredith Marks would say, but about each other.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette maintains full editorial control over this article and all other coverage.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The Harvest Moon is the full moon closest to the fall equinox and has several other names.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Whilom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/whilom. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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