remote past
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Over the next few months, I evaluated four other clients with a very similar picture: young queer adults torturing themselves with obsessional thinking about a sexuality-related misdeed from their remote past.
From Slate • Jun. 13, 2022
The origins of any people’s presence on a particular territory often lie in the remote past and documenting them requires following obscure academics and mythmakers down their rabbit holes.
From Washington Post • Dec. 14, 2021
Researchers have already found important clues to the Red Planet’s remote past within a small number of meteorites chipped off of Mars and hurled to Earth by ancient giant impacts.
From Scientific American • Feb. 6, 2020
The quasars’ brilliance and large distance make them ideal probes of the far reaches of the universe and its remote past.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
In a few cases, we also know something about the individuals who designed writing systems by blueprint copying in the remote past.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
