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[hay-day] / ˈheɪˌdeɪ /


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In its heyday in the 1970s, the site produced about 1,600 barrels of oil per day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

The grunge that Ms. Teitelbaum channels is a serious, heavy sound with intimations of darkness and trauma, and even in its heyday the genre was sometimes criticized for its solemn bearing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The collection, known as The Desk Tapes, has been in the possession of Owain Richards for 20 years, after his dad, a former front-of-house sound engineer joined the band's crew during their heyday.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Though the culture never disappeared since the heyday of cruising in the 1980s and 1990s, interest in lowriding has surged in recent years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

He was a child of AM radio’s Top Forty heyday.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez

I’m seeing people get excited about these bands that were never popular in their heydays, which is kind of cool, but also funny.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2026

In some ways, the current versions of the Seahawks and Patriots are reminiscent of both of their heydays.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

Volkswagen is trying to tap some of that nostalgia in its latest push to regain the status and sales it enjoyed in the United States during the Beetle’s and Microbus’s heydays in the 1960s.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2024

You’ll meet athletic European Millennials wearing multicoloured sunglasses, grey-haired US retirees with epic adventure tales from their ’70s heydays, and everyone else in between — including eager-to-learn alpine virgins like myself.

From National Geographic ● Apr. 16, 2023

Even in heydays of poverty, and poor as she was, you know, notwithstanding our true love for each other, and close intimacy, I never could induce Lucy to receive a cent.

From Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper




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