yesterday
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We were talking yesterday, I had to figure out how to deal with his taxes.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Like I said yesterday, the scar will stay.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
"There were many consultations yesterday and today. Of course, I hear what people are saying," Zelensky said in an evening address, adding that he had spoken with both Syrsky and Fedorov.
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
“I was at a Ralphs yesterday and reaching for my usual prepackaged lettuce for my salads when I said, ‘Nah, let’s wait.’
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
He’d seen her walking along the road yesterday.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
With both of us facing more yesterdays than tomorrows, I cop to midlife anxiety, feeling like time is running out for goals such as learning Spanish or how to swim.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
More important may be simply having a reason to remember some of the yesterdays of a franchise that has 48 rich years of history.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death,” Browne said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
“We’re all in our twilight years; we have more yesterdays than tomorrows,” Davis said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
And here we were now opening the lid of a sealed jar, and all the anticipation of a tomorrow planned a thousand yesterdays ago came skittering to our feet like slick-shelled beetles.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
