from way back
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We definitely, definitely knew from way back, how the ending of the Mayor Fisk rise and fall, where that was going to go next.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
"You've got people choosing to live here from Liverpool but also residents from way back with cultural ties that are deep."
From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2025
“My dad was very intentional in showing me how, from way back, Native people have been shown in media,” she said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2022
“I think him getting someone else that challenges him and plays the same way as him on this defense may even spark the D-Law you saw from way back when,” Parsons said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2022
“And the people here are kind people and good. We’ve taken in Prentisstown folk before. Not for a while but from way back in the bad times.”
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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