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
This episode — which consists almost entirely of characters sharing formative incidents from their pasts — is an unusually blunt device for delivering backstory.
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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
In the photo, the pair could be seen at a table together holding up a set of postcards from the restaurant that depicted flapper-style women wearing different jerseys that had ties to the players’ pasts.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
But then, thanks to a cryptic sentient car GPS, they're brought together for a road trip that involves opening a series of random doors to their pasts.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
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
In the photo, the pair could be seen at a table together holding up a set of postcards from the restaurant that depicted flapper-style women wearing different jerseys that had ties to the players’ pasts.
—Kimberlee Speakman, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 2025
But then, thanks to a cryptic sentient car GPS, they're brought together for a road trip that involves opening a series of random doors to their pasts.
—Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pasts
Noun
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Such grotesque accounts are part of alternate histories that hegemonic discourse attempted to erase.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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The Sturlungs were a powerful Icelandic clan and the Sturlung Saga is a collection of Icelandic stories and histories written and assembled in the 12th and 13th centuries.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 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 4 Nov. 2025.
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