as in extinct
no longer existing
elderly people reminiscing about bygone fashions
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Recent Examples of bygone
Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
The position of the jaws may not be leftover traits from a bygone era, but a more recent adaptation, evolutionarily speaking.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
Built in the 1920s and later owned by decorator Craig Wright, the property was a palimpsest of bygone eras, its Spanish Colonial Revival shell containing the mark of many hands.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 26 Mar. 2025
The Alto Knights is titled after a local Mafia social-club hangout, as if suggesting an ode to bygone camaraderie.
—Armond White, National Review, 21 Mar. 2025
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In an age when heroism is often seen as a relic of a bygone era, the life and death of Alexei Navalny stands as a challenge and a rebuke to progressive nostrums of the day.
—Caroline Downey, National Review, 27 Mar. 2025
The position of the jaws may not be leftover traits from a bygone era, but a more recent adaptation, evolutionarily speaking.
—Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
Built in the 1920s and later owned by decorator Craig Wright, the property was a palimpsest of bygone eras, its Spanish Colonial Revival shell containing the mark of many hands.
—Sam Cochran, Architectural Digest, 26 Mar. 2025
The Alto Knights is titled after a local Mafia social-club hangout, as if suggesting an ode to bygone camaraderie.
—Armond White, National Review, 21 Mar. 2025
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Many employees may also stay put as a result, though some will still seek new opportunities—especially those in relatively stable fields like healthcare. VIDEO QUIZ Ancient DNA from a species that has been extinct for at least 10,000 years lives on once again in the form of three baby animals.—
Danielle Chemtob,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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The company revealed the recent successful birth of three snowy white dire wolf puppies – an animal that was extinct.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
8 Apr. 2025
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The actor, who portrayed Rick, a man searching for answers about his father’s mysterious past at a luxury resort in Thailand, opened up about the shocking finale that no one saw coming.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
7 Apr. 2025
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The students’ work in the Jewish cemetery risks rousing this grim past, and most Darkenbloom residents want no part of such investigations.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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In Brazil, Cuban doctors in the defunct Mais Medicos program were paid less than a third of what was paid to doctors of other nationalities in the same program, according to documents obtained by the Brazilian press.—
Nora Gámez Torres,
Miami Herald,
7 Apr. 2025
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Cohen was first elected in 2018, after Crook had ended his relatively brief career as a lobbyist for the Coalition for Connecticut Sportsmen, a defunct organization that had been run by his father, Robert T. Crook.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
2 Apr. 2025
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For a touch of yesteryear in your kitchen, Smeg appliances hold a special place in our retro-loving hearts.—
Sarah Madaus,
Architectural Digest,
21 Mar. 2025
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Browse According to Category: Berkshires Hotels | Private Homes City: Richmond, Massachusetts Set upon a 20-acre bucolic hillside property, this restored Georgian-Federalist residence transports you to yesteryear—to 1792 to be exact.—
Laura Itzkowitz,
Architectural Digest,
5 Mar. 2025
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Three sisters spun, in myth and lore, The Fates, the Norns, of ancient yore.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
30 Oct. 2024
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Lost tapes, warped vinyl records, and scratched CDs have historically been the relics of hip-hop yore.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
21 Apr. 2023
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So many firsts, gone, charred to ash, just remnants of an area that once represented Black prosperity and joy.—
Maya Richard-Craven,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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The original pioneers were mostly busy making non-hyperpop or gone: SOPHIE tragically died in 2021; 100 gecs spent years toiling to make their zany stadium-rock second album.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
3 Oct. 2024
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