pasts
- plural of past.
Example Sentences
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This is, to put it plainly, the stuff of well-considered emotional rawness, painstaking portraiture of our collective pasts.
From Salon ● May 12, 2026
It was vital for the police to know if all those injuries could have been caused by someone defending themselves - they needed to understand more about the two men's pasts.
From BBC ● Feb. 28, 2026
Yet they were unsinkable; both of them moved to England, married well and tried to distance themselves from their pasts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Other facilities being eyed or identified have troublesome pasts, according to a plan leaked to the Washington Post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2025
All were wealthy and at the peaks of their careers, but all also bore the scars of nineteenth-century life, their pasts full of wrecked rail cars, fevers, and the premature deaths of loved ones.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
