immemorial
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A private island passed by boaters and rowers on the Thames since time immemorial has gone up for sale.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
There is a robust consensus among scholars that politics in Iran begins with the idea of Iran as a people with a continuous and unbroken history, a nation that “looms out of an immemorial past.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2025
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
Researchers compared the genomes of the modern and historic individuals and found they belong to a unified lineage, supporting Blackfoot oral traditions that attest to their people’s presence here since time immemorial.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 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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