distant past
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Bones recovered from underwater caves can provide an extraordinary record of the distant past.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
Yet “The Boys of Dungeon Lane” doesn’t strictly limit its focus to the distant past.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
Five weeks later, that dour mood feels like the distant past on Wall Street.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
It was based on a play that had been published only the previous year and was set in recent times rather than in the safely distant past.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
