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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This episode — which consists almost entirely of characters sharing formative incidents from their pasts — is an unusually blunt device for delivering backstory.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025 -
Both were small—just 12 pounds—and had survived difficult pasts.—
Lydia Patrick,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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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.—
Via Scribner,
Literary Hub,
6 Oct. 2025
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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
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Such grotesque accounts are part of alternate histories that hegemonic discourse attempted to erase.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Oct. 2025
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The Sturlungs were a powerful Icelandic clan and the Sturlung Saga is a collection of Icelandic stories and histories written and assembled in the 12th and 13th centuries.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Yesteryears.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yesteryears. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.
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