past
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The unwelcome trajectory for mortgage rates overshadows some positive news for home buyers: the recovery in housing supply, which has been constrained over the past few years.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Instead, she effectively told voters that the past four years of disasters, inefficiencies and ineptitude are still a better option than taking a chance on the City Hall equivalent of the classroom dork.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
But what he should be asking himself is whether the audience he’s going after with jokes like the ones Gillis made this past weekend is an audience he’d feel comfortable sitting in.
From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2026
The past few years of sticklike messaging have not resulted in a popular tech sector.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026
As your grown humans said, it is past your bedtime.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
But instead of gossiping about who’s dating whom, collaborators batted around their pasts and infused the darkly comedic anthology series with themes of samsara and the Jungian Shadow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
Some of them are haunted by their pasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
He limped to the front door, opened it, slicing the room with a beam of moonlight, blasting through the fog of Charlie’s memory, of his many pasts.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
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