as in pasts
the events or experience of former times
my favorite stories are about gallant knights and fair maidens in the days of yore
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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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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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“Yores.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yores. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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