yore
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There had been a feeling in some quarters that Ireland were not quite the force of yore, and an opening day defeat in Paris did not bode well.
From BBC • Mar. 16, 2026
Thousands flock to its parade of cowboys on horseback, antique cars and floats featuring oil pumps -- a hat tip to the Wild West of yore.
From Barron's • Oct. 20, 2025
Like gold rushes of yore, the surest path to making money often comes from selling mining gear.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 13, 2025
Geoff Dyer is among the great uncategorizable prose writers of the past several decades and he also went to Oxford, albeit at the end of the 1970s, with the war deprivations of yore in rearview.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
“We can’t let yore ma lay here like this. Send word to Nancy that some of us will go to town to fetch coffee in the momin’.”
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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