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Once part of the erstwhile princely state of Mysore, it was known as "garden city" or a "pensioner's paradise".

“West Coast ideologues have embraced the laissez-faire ideology of their erstwhile conservative enemy,” they wrote.

South Asians are largely the last visible sign of pluralism in Republican power, an erstwhile proof that the charges of racism from the left are unfair.

His erstwhile allies in Eastern Europe are rearming themselves to protect against any future Russian aggression.

This alienation of Israel’s erstwhile friends around the world stands to erode, in a potentially lasting way, not only the standing of Netanyahu and his successors but also the long-term viability of Israel’s founding project.