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
Its presence in the film feels like lip service, an obligatory acknowledge of the fact that Megyn Kelly did, on one occasion in the remote past, do something wrong.
From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2019
Can black holes serve as time machines, carrying us to the remote past or the distant future?
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
