yesterday
adverb
on the day preceding this day.
yesterdays
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pluralof yesterday.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
More important may be simply having a reason to remember some of the yesterdays of a franchise that has 48 rich years of history.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2023
“Tomorrow and tomorrow 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,” Browne said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022
“We’re all in our twilight years; we have more yesterdays than tomorrows,” Davis said.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
Slowly, at the camp high school, I'm learning about where I come from, the peculiar yesterdays of my people.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
