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[hey-dey] / ˈheɪˌdeɪ /


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Still, a visit to Meyers’ sleek apartment, admittedly paid for by his parents, confirms for Ed the kind of youthful privilege at play here, so unlike the scrappier downtown bohemia of his own artistic heyday.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

“Most of the people that travel the interstate have been in here. I mean, back in the heyday or whatever, we counted—one day, we had 86 people,” he bragged.

From Slate Aug. 14, 2026

His acquisition of the Lakers had marked the end of an era in the NBA, whose modern popularity owes much to the franchise's 1980s heyday.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

He's right – digital cameras had their heyday in the late 1990s and early 2000s, just before smartphones took off.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

Like Silicon Valley in the heyday of the Internet bubble, London was the center of a speculative mania about the Americas.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

I’m seeing people get excited about these bands that were never popular in their heydays, which is kind of cool, but also funny.

From Los Angeles Times May 20, 2026

In some ways, the current versions of the Seahawks and Patriots are reminiscent of both of their heydays.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 5, 2026

Volkswagen is trying to tap some of that nostalgia in its latest push to regain the status and sales it enjoyed in the United States during the Beetle’s and Microbus’s heydays in the 1960s.

From New York Times Feb. 20, 2024

You’ll meet athletic European Millennials wearing multicoloured sunglasses, grey-haired US retirees with epic adventure tales from their ’70s heydays, and everyone else in between — including eager-to-learn alpine virgins like myself.

From National Geographic Apr. 16, 2023

Even in heydays of poverty, and poor as she was, you know, notwithstanding our true love for each other, and close intimacy, I never could induce Lucy to receive a cent.

From Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper




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