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- noun Plural form of
prehistory .
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Examples
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That could be the case with all the other music we thought he wrote later – it may have had all kinds of prehistories that he destroyed, he added.
Brahms piano piece to get its premiere 159 years after its creation 2012
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But Fletcher finds his groove in the '60s and' 70s, with rock and disco, when the narrative bubbles along on outrageous anecdotes, aesthetic movements get charted with full prehistories, and minor players make basic and fascinating assertions.
NYT > Home Page By BEN RATLIFF 2010
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My beef with him is that I don’t think the enmity between Korea and Japan, which he casts in a simplistic narrative of the conqueror and the conquered, can be helped by “finding common ground” in the intertwined prehistories of these peoples.
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