distant past
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The concept is one of the least futuristic that Apple has implemented in an app in some time, and in fact calls back to the distant past of the pre-Twitter, pre–Instagram Reels sports web.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2026
Thanks to modern imaging techniques, objects that once seemed ordinary can still reveal hidden stories from Earth's distant past.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 4, 2026
Spurs legend Glenn Hoddle has also suggested he would be interested, but once again this would be a dip into the distant past.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
Those who cite events of the distant past, such as the U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, may be deliberately missing the point.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2026
Sometime in the distant past, a line of ancestral creatures must have developed this structure and found it worked, just as generations of long-ago crawling things in Mary’s world had developed the central spine.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
