distant past
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Ghost Ranch in New Mexico remains one of the most important windows into this distant past.
From Science Daily • May 29, 2026
Yet “The Boys of Dungeon Lane” doesn’t strictly limit its focus to the distant past.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
Spurs legend Glenn Hoddle has also suggested he would be interested, but once again this would be a dip into the distant past.
From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026
U.S. company stocks are no longer owned by a small number of stockholders, as in the distant past.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 9, 2026
Sometime in the distant past, a line of ancestral creatures must have developed this structure and found it worked, just as generations of long-ago crawling things in Mary’s world had developed the central spine.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
