past
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The biggest scandal in the modern history of professional sports broke wide open across the Atlantic this past week.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
In generations past, teams shared a duffel of bats, a few batting helmets and one set of gear for a catcher.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The UN refugee agency said this past week its staff were not allowed to meet returnees to confirm whether migrants' decisions "were genuinely free and informed".
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
More than 30,000 tickets were sold for Old Trafford at Trinity's end, nudging the attendance past 71,000 for the sold-out showpiece that guaranteed a new name on the trophy for the second year running.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
He tossed his brown carpetbag past me into the hall, seized my hand, and drew me out into the June sunshine.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
But instead of gossiping about who’s dating whom, collaborators batted around their pasts and infused the darkly comedic anthology series with themes of samsara and the Jungian Shadow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
Married at First Sight Australia stars say the show left them feeling unsafe and unprotected because their on-screen partners had criminal pasts which they were not told about, a BBC investigation can reveal.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
This is, to put it plainly, the stuff of well-considered emotional rawness, painstaking portraiture of our collective pasts.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
But gone too is a sense that we understand each other’s pasts, and Nicole’s understanding of Birdie shatters into a mess of devotion and anger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
We’ve been so busy trying to rewrite our own pasts, we’ve blighted their present.
From "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" by J.K. Rowling
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