times past
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In times past visiting dignitaries would give emperors gifts and tributes.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2025
“Tribute is paid to all grandmothers, great-grandmothers, mothers and traditional healers who in times past could cure everything from a broken heart to clinical illnesses with the help of herbs, flowers, bark, etc.”
From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2024
And it’s true he has changed: In times past, even referring to his narcissism might have earned the therapist a trip to the guano workings.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2023
In times past, auto dealers and lenders were slower to retake cars when borrowers fell behind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2022
They conversed of things I had never heard of; of nations and times past; of countries far away; of secrets of nature discovered or guessed at: they spoke of books: how many they had read!
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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