as in extinct
no longer existing
elderly people reminiscing about bygone fashions
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Recent Examples of bygone
New Atlas, 31 Jan. 2025
Because for most of us, coffee shops and diners have always been nostalgic places more evocative of a bygone time than a true representation.
—Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
At one point, Pelly gives a potted history of Muzak, drawing sharp parallels between Spotify and the bygone mood-music purveyor: their self-serving audience research, their tendency to generate palatable versions of the now sound.
—Brad Shoup, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2025
That modernization left nostalgic fans yearning for the bygone Kelly Green era.
—Caleb Mezzy, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
Koenigsegg Rather than dealing with the bygone days of differentials, Koenigsegg decided on a bevel gear to transfer power directly to a pair of gear-train cassettes mounted to output shafts on either side of the transmission.
—New Atlas, 31 Jan. 2025
Because for most of us, coffee shops and diners have always been nostalgic places more evocative of a bygone time than a true representation.
—Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
At one point, Pelly gives a potted history of Muzak, drawing sharp parallels between Spotify and the bygone mood-music purveyor: their self-serving audience research, their tendency to generate palatable versions of the now sound.
—Brad Shoup, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2025
That modernization left nostalgic fans yearning for the bygone Kelly Green era.
—Caleb Mezzy, The Athletic, 9 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bygone
Adjective
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There, those who live along the border, which is reinforced by not one but three walls, are pushed, after a food crisis, to reanimate and eat extinct species—a process later appropriated by the superrich, for more voyeuristic amusements.—
David L. Ulin,
The Atlantic,
21 Feb. 2025
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This lineage once ruled the food chain in the time after dinosaurs went extinct, preying on primates, early hippos, early elephants and hyraxes, but were later wiped out themselves.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
18 Feb. 2025
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Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Separately, there's good news for those who had crypto at the now defunct FTX crypto exchange.—
Medora Lee,
USA TODAY,
19 Feb. 2025
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But in 2021, Wilks got a call from a friend who said that Mike Tyson wanted to talk about reviving his defunct cannabis company which had gone bust a few years earlier.—
Will Yakowicz,
Forbes,
16 Feb. 2025
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As a striker, Delap is a throwback to yesteryear, but with a deft touch.—
Dan Sheldon,
The Athletic,
15 Feb. 2025
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While some stars went modern with their looks (Naomi Watts and Tilda Swinton both delivered on that front), nominees like Mikey Madison, Margaret Qualley, and Amy Adams all were visions straight of Hollywood's yesteryear.—
Kevin Lynn,
Newsweek,
6 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Three sisters spun, in myth and lore, The Fates, the Norns, of ancient yore.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes,
30 Oct. 2024
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Lost tapes, warped vinyl records, and scratched CDs have historically been the relics of hip-hop yore.—
Andre Gee,
Rolling Stone,
21 Apr. 2023
Adjective
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So many firsts, gone, charred to ash, just remnants of an area that once represented Black prosperity and joy.—
Maya Richard-Craven,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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The original pioneers were mostly busy making non-hyperpop or gone: SOPHIE tragically died in 2021; 100 gecs spent years toiling to make their zany stadium-rock second album.—
Kieran Press-Reynolds,
Pitchfork,
3 Oct. 2024
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“Bygone.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bygone. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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