remote past
Example Sentences
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Over the next few months, I evaluated four other clients with a very similar picture: young queer adults torturing themselves with obsessional thinking about a sexuality-related misdeed from their remote past.
From Slate • Jun. 13, 2022
“We need not freeze remote past values in public spaces when they are clearly archaic and profoundly offensive,” he wrote in an email.
From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2020
Researchers have already found important clues to the Red Planet’s remote past within a small number of meteorites chipped off of Mars and hurled to Earth by ancient giant impacts.
From Scientific American • Feb. 6, 2020
The point of the Grimm brothers’ work was reaching back into the remote past to grasp the “essence” of what it meant to be “German.”
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Resthaven smelled of the remote past, but Borrowdale was close to the world Tendai knew.
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
