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• n  the time that has elapsed
  forget the past
• n  a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)
  reporters dug into the candidate's past
• n  a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
• a  earlier than the present time; no longer current
  time past
  his youth is past
  this past Thursday
  the past year
• s  of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
• r  so as to pass a given point
  every hour a train goes past

• EVERY epoch recreates its own concept of the past.
• PTI's list of the most notorious crimes of the past century, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the Lindbergh kidnapping.
• Who will be PTI's Person of the Year in 2006? Send us your thoughts and view past Persons of the Year.

• past times
• yesteryear
• past tense
• preceding
• retiring
• by

• future

News & Articles

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• Friday Notebook: Past champions give lessons
  Friday Notebook: Past champions give lessons
  June 22, 2013 - PGA via Yahoo! Sports
• Paula Deen apologizes for past use of racial slurs; Food Network won’t renew contract
  Paula Deen apologizes for past use of racial slurs; Food Network won’t renew contract the Associated Press Published Jun 21, 2013 05:18PM MDT SAVANNAH, Ga. • The Food Network says it will not renew the contract of celebrity chef Paula Deen, days after it was revealed she admitted using racial slurs in the past. The network said in a news release Friday afternoon that it would not renew Deen’s ...
  June 21, 2013 - The Salt Lake Tribune
• Paula Deen apologizes for past use of racial slurs
  Paula Deen issued a video apology on Friday, days after it was revealed that she admitted using racial slurs in the past.
  June 21, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Ben Bernanke in Wall Street Journal
  Fears of financial collapse have receded substantially,Mr. Bernanke said at the Federal Reserve's annual retreat at Jackson Hole, Wyo. "After contracting sharply over the past year, economic activity appears to be leveling out, both in the...
• Hillary Rodham Clinton in BusinessWeek
  This announcement is as convincing an answer to the efforts undertaken in Iran in the past few days as any we could provide,Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington when asked to react to a deal with Iran brokered by...
• Barack Obama in Wall Street Journal
  Obama, in a statement, said the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program has provided critical investigative leads to EU member states and helped countries "in preventing or investigating many of the past decade's most visible and violent terrorist...