time immemorial
noun
1
: time so long past as to be indefinite in history or tradition
called also time out of mind
2
: a time antedating a period legally fixed as the basis for a custom or right
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Such stores often have open quilting days, when people bring their sewing machines, rotary cutters, and irons and sit together sewing and gossiping, like women have done from time immemorial.
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Ayelet Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
From time immemorial, the protection of historical content has required making many copies without authorization, regardless of the cultural or business forces at play, and that has not changed with the Internet.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2023
Even though people have been doing it for time immemorial, the act of not going above and beyond at work — work to rule, in labor parlance — got a viral rebrand thanks to social media.
—Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
The groundhog, as New England gardeners have known for time immemorial, is a formidable adversary.
—BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
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Ayelet Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
From time immemorial, the protection of historical content has required making many copies without authorization, regardless of the cultural or business forces at play, and that has not changed with the Internet.
—Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2023
Even though people have been doing it for time immemorial, the act of not going above and beyond at work — work to rule, in labor parlance — got a viral rebrand thanks to social media.
—Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
The groundhog, as New England gardeners have known for time immemorial, is a formidable adversary.
—BostonGlobe.com, 3 May 2023
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