as in past
the events or experience of former times
let us bid farewell to auld lang syne and welcome in the new year
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Recent Examples of auld lang syne
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And auld lang syne.
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Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne?
—The Editors, National Review, 25 Dec. 2024
One last time for auld lang syne: Groundhog Day.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
Eve duties longer than the ABC host and has been an auld lang syne fixture since 2002, driven initially to embrace the idea by his own ambivalence about the occasion.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne?
—The Editors, National Review, 25 Dec. 2024
One last time for auld lang syne: Groundhog Day.
—Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2022
Eve duties longer than the ABC host and has been an auld lang syne fixture since 2002, driven initially to embrace the idea by his own ambivalence about the occasion.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 Nov. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for auld lang syne
past
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In The Mayor of Casterbridge, his 1886 novel about a man who attempts to outflank the great error of his past, the English writer Thomas Hardy offers an interpersonal version of the geopolitical misconstructions Westad articulates.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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To us, Nottoway’s transformation in the 1980s – from a brutal site of enslavement to a luxury resort and wedding venue – represented the Southern plantation tourist industry’s tendency to whitewash our past.—
Essence,
Essence,
29 Oct. 2025
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