as in past
the events or experience of former times
my grandparents are always reminiscing about yesterday
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The Loman family home isn’t depicted in a literal fashion but instead fluidly suggested in a warehouse space that allows the actors to move unfetteredly between past and present.—
Theater Critic,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026 -
Two hundred and fifty years into the national experiment, however, this would mean that the future looks ever more like the distant past.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
7 June 2026
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“Yesterday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yesterday. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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