a while back
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Writer Greg Stolze posted a while back about “some professor” who “put googly eyes on a pencil and waved it at his class saying ‘Hi!
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
It was Ms Berry’s great-niece who saved her, helping her wade through three to four feet of water, as she had a hip replacement a while back.
From BBC • Oct. 2, 2024
I lost the conversation’s thread a while back, so I ask him, “Do you travel much?”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 12, 2024
“I remember one a while back that was a roller and those are scary because they keep going on, but this was a quick hit, was over and that’s it.”
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024
She passed a while back, but it’s in her honor that I’d like to donate twenty-five thousand dollars to the Hope Springs Downtown Revitalization Fund.”
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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