ancient history

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Handing the ball to an ace like Yamamoto and asking for nine innings is ancient history.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

"This wasn't a missing chapter in New Zealand's ancient history, it was a missing volume."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

Bostock felt like ancient history on Tuesday morning, when the court heard oral argument in Little v.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2026

One explanation is that by the time that research is submitted, accepted and presented, it can be several months old, which the frontier labs now consider ancient history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 20, 2025

I wasn’t that great on ancient history, but I was pretty sure the Roman Empire never made it as far as Long Island.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan