past

Over the past 50 years, barn owl numbers have declined across the UK.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

In the past, technological innovations in warfare tended to come from major powers that had their own industrial bases, enabling them to produce their weapons at scale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

She showed that we are all more alike than we are different, and that it’s easier to see eye to eye when you aren’t looking past one another.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Antarctica became heavily glaciated around 34 million years ago, while large ice sheets in the Northern Hemisphere did not form until approximately the past five million years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Nothing,” she says, rolling past the cop car and turning into our driveway.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

At the same time, small fly-by-night schools have been opened by profiteers and people with problematic pasts or no educational experience.

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

It was as if their past, in the eternal way of pasts, had been shipped after them by sea mail — arriving in spectacular condition just when they’d forgotten it entirely.

From "Typical American" by Gish Jen