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olden days

adverb as in anciently

noun as in antiquity

noun as in history

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"In the olden days, doctors would ease you out of life and the difference was it wasn't necessarily with your consent," she said.

From BBC

"The olden days, when discreet GPs used to bump people off if life got unendurable - unfortunately Dr Shipman changed all that because everything tightened up."

From BBC

Two years ago, I ditched any semblance of cheesy dating apps in favor of meeting the love of my life organically, like in the olden days.

Prince Harry said that in the "olden days" parents always knew what their children were up to, as long as they were at home.

From BBC

In the olden days, writers were taught to put the mark –30– at the bottom of a story to indicate the end.

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

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