as in pasts
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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Noun
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Hannah and Garrett both open up about their pasts individually to other people after finding safe space in each other.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
13 May 2026 -
The innocence of that love becomes something of a foil against which the two women project and interrogate their feelings about their own pasts.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
Noun
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But political ideologues from both the left and the right seem to prefer histories in which the United States is either all bad or all good.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
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Set in a Himalayan village in Sikkim, the film traces the lives of women across three generations of a single family – their emotional inheritances, unspoken histories and daily negotiations.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
11 May 2026
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