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were past
noun
The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
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I thought those days were past".
I'd thought we were past playing with guns.
Rick Fox, Derek Fisher and Robert Horry were past that.
There were past, current and, possibly, future governors and mayors.
Among the loans surveyed, about 3.6 million were past due or in foreclosure.
He later launched another label, but the great days were past.
There were past champions stumbling around this World Cup with fewer points than these two outsiders.
What they did remember, as the French often do, were past indignities on this day.
Those nights were past, they were perfect — and they were tense.
The performers were past participants; the lineup for this year has not been decided.
"I thought that the days of my vanity were past," Ridgeon says.
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