as in pasts
the events or experience of former times
the simple games of yesteryear that kept children entertained for hours
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Noun
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Hannah and Garrett both open up about their pasts individually to other people after finding safe space in each other.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
13 May 2026 -
The innocence of that love becomes something of a foil against which the two women project and interrogate their feelings about their own pasts.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
12 May 2026
Noun
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Today, as in all of mankind’s yesterdays, guarantees this type of song will never go out of style.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
16 Apr. 2026
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Today, as in all of mankind’s yesterdays, guarantees this song will never go out of style.—
Kiana Mickles,
Pitchfork,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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But political ideologues from both the left and the right seem to prefer histories in which the United States is either all bad or all good.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
12 May 2026
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Set in a Himalayan village in Sikkim, the film traces the lives of women across three generations of a single family – their emotional inheritances, unspoken histories and daily negotiations.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
11 May 2026
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“Yesteryears.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yesteryears. Accessed 14 May. 2026.
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