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- noun Plural form of
past . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
past .
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Examples
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So now the two franchises are meeting in the postseason for the first time since, and the contrast between their pasts is an easy story line.
Spare Us the Talk About the Rangers Mike Sielski 2010
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Early on, one of the characters mentions her fondness for going into a movie when it's halfway through, because speculating on peoples 'pasts is more interesting than imagining their futures, and likewise the book proceeds backwards, beginning shortly after the war and then going back to two points in the midst of it.
Sell-by dates Roger Sutton 2006
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Early on, one of the characters mentions her fondness for going into a movie when it's halfway through, because speculating on peoples 'pasts is more interesting than imagining their futures, and likewise the book proceeds backwards, beginning shortly after the war and then going back to two points in the midst of it.
Archive 2006-08-01 Roger Sutton 2006
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To an even greater extent than in the previous chapter, my methodology for exploring the historical meanings of women's tattoos combines oral history with the insights of feminist archaeologists, particularly those who have tried to tease out the less easily accessible byways of women's pasts from the tracks of social and spatial relationships embedded in feminine material culture.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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Confronting those pasts is a bleak present threatening to swallow the future within it: "Thou hast been, shall be, art, alone."
Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism 2003
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Still on the trail of the people responsible for Connor Hawke’s condition — and subsequent disappearance — Green Arrow and Black Canary face their uncertain pasts†¦ and a future of uncertainty!
DC Comics for May 2008 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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In fact, I’m certain that everything you said about these folks’ pasts is nothing but pure fantasy.
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By oligarchs and comrades on the inside who were high in authority, place had been made for us, we were in possession of all necessary documents, and our pasts were accounted for.
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This is a nation of immigrants not only because people have come here from many places and many walks of life, but also because people are supposed to be welcome here regardless of where they came from, and should they choose to celebrate their heritage, they can, if they choose to forget their pasts, that is also acceptable.
MJR Montoya: Fractures in the System: How Arizona Has Forced the Divide between the Ethnic and the Civic MJR Montoya 2010
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This is a nation of immigrants not only because people have come here from many places and many walks of life, but also because people are supposed to be welcome here regardless of where they came from, and should they choose to celebrate their heritage, they can, if they choose to forget their pasts, that is also acceptable.
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