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yore

[yawr, yohr] / yɔr, yoʊr /


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There had been a feeling in some quarters that Ireland were not quite the force of yore, and an opening day defeat in Paris did not bode well.

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026

I’d been hesitant about my decision to stay outside of the downtown area, but as the band conjured a Charleston of yore, I knew I’d made the right choice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Thousands flock to its parade of cowboys on horseback, antique cars and floats featuring oil pumps -- a hat tip to the Wild West of yore.

From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025

Geoff Dyer is among the great uncategorizable prose writers of the past several decades and he also went to Oxford, albeit at the end of the 1970s, with the war deprivations of yore in rearview.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025

Both them cots sleep good, son, so take yore pick.”

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns




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