past
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That past two, at the end of the 2024-25 season, were to keep him fresh for important Europa League games.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
Both are essential to scraping past the layers of artifice Holmes and Evans have built around themselves.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026
As you can see from the chart below, this correlation has been in a steady downtrend over the past six decades — notwithstanding the blip upward during the global financial crisis.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026
Fogo de Chão, the Brazilian steakhouse, is another restaurant that has expanded rapidly across the country, almost doubling its footprint from 60-some locations to nearly 115 in the past four years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
I lead the way, calling out when to duck, twist, and turn past sharp branches that reach out for us like zombie fingers.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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As a result, the state takes few steps to protect students from private school educators with troubled pasts.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Married at First Sight Australia stars say the show left them feeling unsafe and unprotected because their on-screen partners had criminal pasts which they were not told about, a BBC investigation can reveal.
From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2026
Both have pasts you wouldn’t put on a Tinder profile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2026
But gone too is a sense that we understand each other’s pasts, and Nicole’s understanding of Birdie shatters into a mess of devotion and anger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
Plus, no one at the Ranch talks about their pasts.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
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