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yores

noun

plural of yore

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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Amongst the Island’s iconic statues, as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris’s newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 18 Aug. 2026
Complex pasts For decades, Japan continued with this strategy and even developed an Islam policy in the 1930s.

— Mimi Hanaoka, The Conversation, 11 Aug. 2026

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If cave paintings tell the stories of the earliest human life, factices — the once-ubiquitous oversized perfume bottle replicas — play a similar role in revealing the histories of fragrance.

— Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 21 Aug. 2026
Losing places tied to memories and personal history Psychiatrist Andrés Fuenmayor explains that many of those affected lost not only family members, homes and belongings, but also places steeped in memories and connected to their personal histories.

— Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

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