this past

idiom

: the one that most recently took place

—used with a period of time

I spoke to him on the phone just this past weekend.

Examples of this past in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor — the brother of King Charles III of the United Kingdom — was stripped of his royal title as Prince Andrew and evicted from his royal residence this past year amid resurfaced details of his relationship with Epstein and Maxwell. —Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2026

Louisville, Kentucky, had a 6-inch snowfall five days before my arrival this past weekend, and the incomplete plowing made an impression on me. —Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026

Indeed, the release of Anthropic’s latest AI-coding tools sparked a massive selloff among tech stocks this past week as the technical expertise needed to write and maintain code is expected to fall sharply. —Jason Ma, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2026

Valieva was given a four-year ban, which expired this past December. —Paulina Dedaj, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for this past

• aghast
• amassed
• biassed
• broadcast
• bypassed
• downcast
• forecast
• foremast
• harassed
• holdfast
• mainmast
• newscast