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yesterday

noun as in the day before today

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Its urgent grandeur made Europe’s Middle Ages seem like yesterday.

For its fourth, flavor-seekers turned their attention to the shelf-stable dinner kit favored by yesterday’s working moms, thanks to the episode titled “Worms.”

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I worry that in 50 years we’ll look more like Europe of today than America of yesterday.

He never rests on yesterday’s successes and doesn’t get complacent.

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As he put it on stage about being 73, “there’s a lot more yesterdays, and more goodbyes.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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