anciently
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Anciently created as single-chamber tombs, dolmens dot the Danish landscape, and during the Romantic era became emblems of home pride, of national strength and lastingness.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2023
Anciently, its presence was used as a quasi-scientific explanation for a gloom-disposed temperament, a personality type that would be pathologized by Freud.
From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2022
Anciently called Lachish, this site was a fortress in the Kingdom of Judah.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Anciently Libyan tribes occupied the neighborhood of Carthage.
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Anciently there were moral philosophers who plead that utility was the only foundation of virtue.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, March, 1880 by Walker, Aaron