as in pasts
the events or experience of former times
my grandparents are always reminiscing about yesterday
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Recent Examples of yesterdays
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.
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Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
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
Via Scribner, Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for yesterdays
pasts
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Destin Daniel Cretton's debut feature concerns a group of counselors (headed by Brie Larson's Grace) at a home for at-risk teens who must deal with their own traumatic pasts while shepherding their patients to a brighter future.—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Jan. 2026
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For the past 10 years Ai has lived in Germany, the UK and now Portugal, never once setting foot in his native country, where people with far less controversial pasts have faced arbitrary detention.—
Stephy Chung,
CNN Money,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Yesterdays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yesterdays. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
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