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. 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
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  • Lellouche stars as unlikely hero Zem, a disillusioned Zone 3 cop with an idealistic militant past, who is teamed with haughty, high-flying Zone 2 officer Salia, played by Adèle Exarchopoulos, after a leading politician is assassinated in Zone 1.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
  • From the outside, Laura could be loving, protective, overbearing, even intrusive — while Cherry sows doubt for hiding pieces of her past despite ostensibly adoring her new beau.
    Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 10 Sep. 2025

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“Auld lang syne.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auld%20lang%20syne. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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