past
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The drivers sped past the Washington Monument and museums on the National Mall, before passing a finish line with the US Capitol building in frame.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
For her wedding this past June, Jade Mitchell Clyde leveraged her audience of about 158,000 Instagram followers to get sponsorships from Minted, a stationery company, and Brilliant Earth, a fine jewelry retailer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
It ushered in a new kind of fun that was fresher, busier and airier than past listservs and chatrooms, the dank basements of internet interaction.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026
GLP-1 medications have transformed the treatment of obesity, diabetes, and fatty liver disease over the past several years.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Even the garlands of fungi and shelves of jeweled bottles felt like the work of a past life.
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
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
The studios gamely went along, ruining the lives of a number of their creative talent who refused to disavow their pasts.
From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026
Could he find problems in the investigators’ pasts, something that might call into question their credibility or capability?
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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