yesterday

as in past
the events or experience of former times my grandparents are always reminiscing about yesterday

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  • Paley reminded me of my past but also of my present: living in Greenwich Village, with a poet as a partner, trying to write while bringing up two kids.
    Zadie Smith, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • Discovering the Danger from Outer Space Around 200 years ago, in the 1830s, geologists began to study fossils and figure out that several mass extinctions had wiped out whole ecosystems of species on Earth in the distant past.
    Kiona N. Smith, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
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“Yesterday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yesterday. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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