past
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IN THE PAST, trailers often relied on the scores of previously released films, but that practice has basically become verboten.
From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2023
IN THE PAST, when people wondered how to live moral lives, they could look to the saints, or take their questions to church.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2016
RE: PAST: It’s really, really easy to tell someone about things you used to do even if you won’t do them now.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 9, 2014
Steve Wozniak is a Dolt that lives in the PAST, babbling constantly about jokes and Phreaking he did in his youth.
From Forbes • Nov. 10, 2011
He who waits beside the folded gates of mystery, over which forever float the impurpled vapors of the PAST, should stand with girded loins, and white, unshodden feet.
From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Foster, Hannah Webster
Vocabulary lists containing past
Conventions, Writing to Sources, and Speaking & Listening, Unit 1
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Conventions, Writing to Sources, and Speaking & Listening (Unit 1)
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