remote past
Example Sentences
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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
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 point of the Grimm brothers’ work was reaching back into the remote past to grasp the “essence” of what it meant to be “German.”
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
The 100-year-old rebellion in Britain’s oldest colony, in particular, is fading into the remote past.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2016
Resthaven smelled of the remote past, but Borrowdale was close to the world Tendai knew.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
