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Recent Examples of ancient history
This enchanting work of ancient history offers an important backdrop to understanding contemporary India.
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Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Fortunately, that was now ancient history, which was also now on my mind a bit more.
—James Cordier, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
The saga of the Shubert brothers was now consigned to ancient history — even though its scandalous denouement was quite recent history — and the current monarchs were not about to call attention to it.
—Frank Rich, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
Some people might consider snail mail subscription companies to be ancient history, which makes History By Mail somewhat ironic.
—Ryan Johnston, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
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Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
Fortunately, that was now ancient history, which was also now on my mind a bit more.
—James Cordier, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
The saga of the Shubert brothers was now consigned to ancient history — even though its scandalous denouement was quite recent history — and the current monarchs were not about to call attention to it.
—Frank Rich, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
Some people might consider snail mail subscription companies to be ancient history, which makes History By Mail somewhat ironic.
—Ryan Johnston, CNBC, 8 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ancient history
open secret
Noun
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The use of backing tracks is an open secret among many performers; last summer, footage of Frankie Valli, at 90, barely keeping up with his backing track, caused a brief viral scandal.—
Christopher Borrelli,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Apr. 2025
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Casares also made public an open secret within the crypto community: several trustworthy sources indicated that a cabinet member of the highest levels of Milei’s government had received $5 million for the operation.—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Ancient history.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ancient%20history. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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