yesteryear
last year.
the recent years; time not long past.
during time not long past.
Origin of yesteryear
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How to use yesteryear in a sentence
Founded in London in 1766, art auction house Christie’s is a symbol of yesteryear—and yet the company appears to be on the cutting edge.
Months after the Beeple sale, Christie’s is still betting on NFTs | Scott Nover | July 30, 2021 | QuartzToday’s thru-hikers opt for lighter-weight footwear than the heavy waffle stompers of yesteryear.
Booze writers who’ve been around a while may pine for yesteryear, when at least the holidays were real, by which I mean they were occasions that could be found on calendars during which festive drinking might organically occur.
In Irish whiskey’s resurgence, individuality reigns. Here’s how to celebrate it in cocktails. | M. Carrie Allan | March 12, 2021 | Washington PostOne of the NFL’s foremost historians, Joe Horrigan, is careful not to discount the quarterbacks of yesteryear despite the greater emphasis on the position today.
Brady vs. Mahomes is one of the greatest Super Bowl QB matchups ever. We ranked all 55. | Scott Allen, Neil Greenberg | February 4, 2021 | Washington Post“The SPACs of yesteryear are nothing like the SPACs that are listing today,” Cunningham said Wednesday during the virtual Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit.
Stock market SPACs are here to stay, says NYSE’s Stacey Cunningham | Lucinda Shen | September 30, 2020 | Fortune
But the question is, could a thawing of relations result in a return to the mobbed-up action of yesteryear?
Will Hyman Roth Return to Havana With Normalized Relations? | John L. Smith | December 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOr a horse and carriage, like the one driven a young man in a tweed suit and cap from yesteryear, as he gazed up at the stars.
There were boyish suits from yesteryear with puffy white sleeves and fur collars worn by androgynous creatures with white faces.
Valentino, Chanel, and Alexander McQueen at Paris Fashion Week | Liza Foreman | March 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI could use this opportunity to become as stylish and perhaps as divine as many of the heroines of yesteryear.
A Breast Cancer Alphabet: F Is For Fashion Accessories | Madhulika Sikka | February 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut here the design resembled something from track practice on a muddy English lawn from yesteryear, rather than high-tech Adidas.
Forgotten were the nine cubs of the year before, and the quartettes and sextettes of many a yesteryear.
Wild Folk | Samuel ScovilleThey belong rather more to the sort of music that has no more relation with yesteryear than it has with this or next.
Musical Portraits | Paul RosenfeldThe joke of yesteryear already shows frays upon its sleeves.
G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study | Julius WestIn that moment books and plays seemed like the snows of yesteryear.
May Iverson's Career | Elizabeth JordanOh, well, all flesh is grass, and there is no grass of yesteryear.
The Little Lady of the Big House | Jack London
British Dictionary definitions for yesteryear
/ (ˈjɛstəˌjɪə) formal, or literary /
last year or the past in general
during last year or the past in general
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