bygones
Example Sentences
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The downside, as with all great teachers in the arts, was a crowd of epigones.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
Were Lowell nearly as cruel in his rather anodyne and flattering portraits of his literary mentors, friends and epigones, the “Life Among Writers” section of “Memoirs” would be immeasurably more interesting.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022
It’s unfair to blame Szeemann for the faults of his epigones.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
The School of Life books by de Botton’s epigones are also pretty dreadful.
From Salon • May 13, 2013
With him none but the epigones, the friends of the people, worked on.
From Maxim Gorki by Ostwald, Hans
