time immemorial
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One would think the viruses and bacteria that have tormented humanity since time immemorial would never find a friend in the species — human beings — they so routinely sicken and kill.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2025
“In the past, we’ve tried to get all of the parties to the table to secure water rights, which since time immemorial we’ve had to fight for,” Curley says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
Blackfoot people know that their ancestors, since time immemorial, have lived across the Rocky Mountains’s eastern slopes and adjacent plains of what is now Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
This park, and all of Nunavut, is Inuit Nunangat -- Inuit homeland in Canada -- and the park protects sites and biodiversity stewarded by Inuit since time immemorial.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024
Everywhere he looked, he saw a world made of stories, the long ago, time immemorial stories, as old Grandma called them.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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