of yore
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literary
: of the past
in days of yore
The great composers of yore performed for kings and queens.
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While many didn’t supply much outside of a nice scent and a tingling sensations, others improved our strands before our very eyes — filling in previously patchy spots, boosting thickness, and restoring the confidence from our good hair days of yore.
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Alyssa Brascia, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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Leading Republicans today can sound like the Left of yore.
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Think of these videos as the wartime posters of yore.
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These are well-trodden observations, the kind of bottom-shelf one-liners that comics of yore once made entire careers out of.
—Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2024
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Alyssa Brascia, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
Politics & Policy Right and Left, Up and Down
Jay Nordlinger
Leading Republicans today can sound like the Left of yore.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 24 Oct. 2024
Think of these videos as the wartime posters of yore.
—Colin Demarest, Axios, 23 Oct. 2024
These are well-trodden observations, the kind of bottom-shelf one-liners that comics of yore once made entire careers out of.
—Amanda Wicks, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2024
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“Of yore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/of%20yore. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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