days of old
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The latest China Beige Book private economic survey was more blunt: "But forget a return to days of old: it will take considerable policy support in 2023 just to pull property out of the gutter."
From Reuters • Jan. 5, 2023
There’s even a canned recording that begins, “Attention, Kmart shoppers” — except it’s to remind folks about COVID-19 precautions, not to alert them to a flash sale over in ladies’ lingerie like days of old.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 10, 2022
Perhaps the other America will stiffen in tried-and-true backlash and persist in harkening to days of old.
From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2020
It is the perfect marriage, they say, of the glory days of old and the possibilities ahead.
From Washington Post • Feb. 22, 2018
When it’s glorious, I want to live in that place, where the stars are just marking a vast unreachable shell, like they used to believe in days of old.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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