those days

plural noun

: a period of time in the past
Remember when we were kids and life was easy? Well, those days are gone.
In those days, women weren't allowed to own property.
No one knew in those days what caused the disease.

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Simply one of those days where a 'bad swing' resulted in him missing his target by a few feet. Mark Harris Outkick, FOXNews.com, 17 Aug. 2026 His visit to Jaya’s was decades prior, after all; the house and the garden were probably better maintained in those days, and Jaya herself would have been younger and more energetic. Deborah Treisman, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026 Lincoln Park Zoo purchased the primate for $3,500 (or almost $71,000 in today’s dollars) — a practice that was common in those days. Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 Aug. 2026 Traffic crawled at a creep along Independence Boulevard in those days. Dj Simmons, Charlotte Observer, 15 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for those days

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“Those days.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/those%20days. Accessed 22 Aug. 2026.

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