distant past
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Apollo astronauts returned samples of lunar anorthosite to Earth, giving researchers valuable material for studying the Moon's distant past.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
She wrote her 1970 song “Coal Miner’s Daughter” about her early life, and it became not just a personal milestone but a snapshot of the distant past rendered so vividly that it became a film.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
The concept is one of the least futuristic that Apple has implemented in an app in some time, and in fact calls back to the distant past of the pre-Twitter, pre–Instagram Reels sports web.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2026
Ghost Ranch in New Mexico remains one of the most important windows into this distant past.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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