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View synonyms for a while back
a while back
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Also, a while ago . Some time in the past, as in I ran into Barbara a while back but didn't get her new address , or John wrote me a while ago about his new baby . This term uses a while in the sense of “a short or moderate time,” a usage dating from about 1300.Advertisement
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