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halcyon

adjective as in calm, peaceful

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Twelve years later, those halcyon days of Welsh rugby - in which their then coach Warren Gatland was feted - are long gone.

From BBC

Alongside Spike's lessons in humanity, Boyle highlights a stagnant culture on the island, which is "not progressive, standing still... looking back to the halcyon days of England".

From BBC

Post those halcyon days, the brothers began delving into music together.

Kennedy obsessively insists there was a halcyon time before modern medicine — and especially before vaccines — that Americans were "healthy."

From Salon

“But it's not like there was a halcyon time where home ownership was readily available for renters.”

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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