as in histories
the events or experience of former times
we spent a pleasant evening recalling the past together
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Recent Examples of pasts
Indianapolis is no stranger to taverns with curious characters and colorful pasts, and its dive bar scene remains strong hundreds of years later.
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Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 7 Nov. 2025
As the show progresses, flashbacks also reveal parts of many of the characters' pasts.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
This episode — which consists almost entirely of characters sharing formative incidents from their pasts — is an unusually blunt device for delivering backstory.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
Both were small—just 12 pounds—and had survived difficult pasts.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
These are adults with baggage, unable to walk away from their pasts.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
The play, by Jordan Ramirez Puckett, follows a mother-son cross-country road trip peppered with the teen’s hip-hop music as a brown son and his white mother seek common ground in their uncommon pasts.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 12 Oct. 2025
And sometimes the prize’s winners can have complex pasts and very non-peaceful resumes.
—David Smilde, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
Bob and Zoyd are both paranoid in the wake of their rebellious pasts.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 7 Nov. 2025
As the show progresses, flashbacks also reveal parts of many of the characters' pasts.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
This episode — which consists almost entirely of characters sharing formative incidents from their pasts — is an unusually blunt device for delivering backstory.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 30 Oct. 2025
Both were small—just 12 pounds—and had survived difficult pasts.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
These are adults with baggage, unable to walk away from their pasts.
—Zac Ntim, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
The play, by Jordan Ramirez Puckett, follows a mother-son cross-country road trip peppered with the teen’s hip-hop music as a brown son and his white mother seek common ground in their uncommon pasts.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 12 Oct. 2025
And sometimes the prize’s winners can have complex pasts and very non-peaceful resumes.
—David Smilde, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
Bob and Zoyd are both paranoid in the wake of their rebellious pasts.
—Andrew McGowan, Variety, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasts
Noun
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Many of these arrestees have long histories of addiction and significant health and mental health challenges.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Nov. 2025
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The goal for Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, each Parsons School of Design graduates, is to honour the codes of the LVMH house through the lenses of their cultural histories and personal aesthetics.—
Vogue Business Team,
Vogue,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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My poetry began as a father’s sly growl, became a spectacle on a rickety stage washed in limelight, and now is a 70-year-old woman’s walk back into a thousand yesterdays.—
Via Scribner,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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As noted in yesterdays’ newsletter, O’Hearn is 4-for-5 with two home runs and two doubles against lefties.—
Kevin Acee,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Pasts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pasts. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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