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Formerly, in the past, as in Time was, the city streets were perfectly safe at night. [Mid-1500s]
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IS and ARE are both forms of which verb?
Words nearby time was
time-tested, time travel, time trial, time value, time warp, time was, time will tell, timework, timeworn, time zone, timid
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