past

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CABIMAS, Venezuela — The pumps that brought prosperity from deep in the Earth’s crust are now mostly rusted relics of a storied past.

From Los Angeles Times

Over the past decade, this event coincided with disease, geopolitical hostility and even the occasional threat of nuclear war.

From The Wall Street Journal

“There’s a freedom. There’s a real freedom. And it’s nice. It’s just so much nicer than the plaster of the past.”

From Los Angeles Times

Collectively, the team's defence, which has kept opposition shuttling sideways for the past year, was suddenly full of creaks and creases for Scotland to exploit.

From BBC

The endowment-funded growth of the past three decades, he said, will likely never happen again.

From The Wall Street Journal