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The word “Kościuszko”—like “BQE,” “McGuinness-Humboldt” and, in bygone days, “the Elmhurst tanks”—can strike fear in the hearts of longtime New York commuters.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 28, 2026

The museum allows visitors to travel back in time to look around replica towns, villages and working landscapes from bygone days, meeting costumed staff and volunteers to experience stories of everyday life.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2025

I have made progress since those bygone days, but I still manage to get the batter down the sides — rarely a nice, clean entry for me.

From Salon Jan. 2, 2025

And the street names — Strada Karl Marx, Strada Yuri Gagarin — hark back to bygone days of Soviet glory.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2023

They used her Uncle Nicolas’s books, the dishes, the boxes, the furniture, and the drapes of bygone days to arrange their astonishing nuptial chamber.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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