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The fashions are what the fashions are, and yet over and over it feels like, really, he could have written this yesterday.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2026
When I was watching on TV, I was like, ‘Holy ... he looks better today than he did yesterday, and he did pretty well the day before.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The drop in Intel’s stock price yesterday after SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed over the weekend that he was in discussions with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Hochul: ‘What we learned yesterday raised... troubling questions’
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
It would have been nice yesterday, when he’d been trying to do his job.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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The two candidates who advance to the general election would be wise to offer Californians a hope for the future that doesn’t call back to our yesterdays.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
As he put it on stage about being 73, “there’s a lot more yesterdays, and more goodbyes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
At this moment in its history, Pittsburgh is working to blend its fabled industrial yesterdays with a 21st-century economy based increasingly on services and innovation — something the map project reflects.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
“We’re all in our twilight years; we have more yesterdays than tomorrows,” Davis said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
From "Tears of a Tiger" by Sharon M. Draper
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