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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Albeit, there are some emotional stakes to the character’s arc of wrestling with his past mistakes, as well as to the love triangle between three people who truly care about each other, despite their pasts (and futures).—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
15 Mar. 2026
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The result was a reunion that finally provided (mostly) satisfying questions and answers about participants’ pasts and presents instead of dancing around topics.—
Maira Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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“Yesterdays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yesterdays. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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