Collocations withpast
These are words often used in combination withpast.
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ancient past
The reconstruction was orchestrated through the collapsing of the sites' post-war present and its desired future on to its excavated and reimagined ancient past.
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colonial past
In this milieu, the strategy of economic development was shaped by the colonial past and the nationalist present.
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distant past
My eyes were glued to the drawing as if they were objects animating a dream of my distant past.
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evolutionary past
The view advanced here is that they identify a set of behavioral adaptations for social interaction favored in our evolutionary past by group selection.
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forgotten past
I am wondering where that forgotten past has gone.
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geologic past
The region is characterized by numerous marshes, brakes, sloughs, bayous, lakes, creeks, and rivers that in the geologic past were parts of the river bed.
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geological past
How, why and when this has happened in the geological past is a matter of great interest.
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glorious past
Like nationalists everywhere, they wrote histories that projected the present backward and connected it with a glorious past.
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imperial past
But the rhetoric is familiar enough, from an imperial past, and if this is not ideological, what is?
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in the not-too-distant past
Where our data base consists of existing and well described languages, reconstructions of proto-languages in the not-too-distant past can be sizeable and sure.
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prehistoric past
But such a change of emphasis means letting go of some of the anchors thrown into the prehistoric past in the last thirty years.
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recent past
Most of the current and recent past literature of the history of science, however, fits this taxonomy.
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shared past
Trained staff structured talk around eight cultural themes from a shared past.
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trace of past
If humans did not record in their cognitive states some trace of past experience, we could do something a thousand times without its becoming familiar.
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tragic past
He was visited by daydreams of climbing partners (both extant and deceased) and family members from his very adventurous and occasionally tragic past.
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troubled past
The accession countries have a troubled past and have not always had the benefit of freedom of movement and speech.
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violent past
It is imperative that transitional regimes do not conspire to 'forget' their violent past.
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