How to Use ancient history in a Sentence
ancient history
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Those defeats are ancient history for a group of players born years later.
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Edgar Thompson,
OrlandoSentinel.com,
1 Sep. 2017
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But for most of Sunday’s game, that performance seemed like ancient history.
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Terez A. Paylor,
kansascity,
17 Sep. 2017
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And all of that Children of the Forest stuff, and the ancient history within that.
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Jennifer Vineyard,
Marie Claire,
3 Oct. 2017
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But that seems like ancient history, as does Texas being a national power.
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Don Markus,
baltimoresun.com,
2 Sep. 2017
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In that way, Michele firmly brought his audience’s focus to a more global view of ancient history.
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Madeleine Luckel,
Vogue,
20 Sep. 2017
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Everything from the decor to the organic cuisine to the spa treatments nods to the past—the pleasantest ancient history lesson ever.
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Priscilla Eakeley,
Town & Country,
30 Nov. 2016
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Knowing how climate change impacted Australia’s mammals thousands of years ago isn’t just ancient history.
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Brian Switek,
Smithsonian,
26 Jan. 2017
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That’s all ancient history now, though, given that Jackson, Carmelo Anthony and Rose were all swept away during a stormy summer.
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Ben Golliver,
SI.com,
11 Oct. 2017
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So the Berlin Wall and the Cold War are ancient history to them.
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Ruby Mellen,
Washington Post,
8 Nov. 2019
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Here’s what to know about the Moon God both in the comics and in ancient history.
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Josh St. Clair,
Men's Health,
6 Apr. 2022
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And that game is now ancient history — the page now must turn to the 2024 season.
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Dieter Kurtenbach,
The Mercury News,
13 Feb. 2024
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As this new book makes clear, the drugs in your first book are ancient history now.
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Harriet Ryan,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Oct. 2021
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The girl followed Groff to the children’s area and asked for a book about ancient history.
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Alexandra Alter,
New York Times,
10 May 2024
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Many of the women profiled in the book were not ancient history.
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Eliza Fawcett,
courant.com,
29 Oct. 2019
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The Huskies led 61-30 at the end of the third quarter, the Bulldogs’ once nine-point lead seeming like ancient history.
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Lila Bromberg,
Hartford Courant,
21 Jan. 2023
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And references to it can be found throughout ancient history, in the works of Homer as well as in the Bible and Quran.
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Joe Minihane,
CNN,
29 Oct. 2021
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That might be ancient history, but the recent past for the Zips hasn’t been much better.
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Chris Solari,
Detroit Free Press,
8 Sep. 2022
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The name of El Gerrouj now seems as if from ancient history.
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Roger Robinson,
Outside Online,
6 Oct. 2020
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No one truly knows the ancient history of the Basque people.
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Jennifer Billock,
Smithsonian Magazine,
9 Mar. 2020
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Even the Women’s March of 2017 feels like ancient history right now.
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Katie Walsh,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Sep. 2020
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This teacher of ancient history must come to terms with his own past.
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Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
26 Oct. 2023
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Center Ryan Kesler said the events in Game 3 are ancient history.
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Helene Elliott,
latimes.com,
18 Apr. 2018
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Those in ancient history thought the same and wanted to feel warmth beneath their feet in a temple.
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Sean Mowbray,
Discover Magazine,
13 Sep. 2022
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Why bring up an event that, to younger readers, may seem like ancient history?
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John Cassidy,
The New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2020
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Those seasons felt almost like ancient history, in part, because the game has just evolved so much in the past 10 years.
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Jim Ruland,
Los Angeles Times,
13 July 2024
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But with Crosby’s memory so close to the surface, all that seemed like the stuff of ancient history.
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Mikael Wood,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2023
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Klimek: Youssef grew up in Cairo, so from a young age he was surrounded by ancient history.
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Chris Klimek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 May 2024
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This was not ancient history on the screen, but six Octobers ago.
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Henry Schulman,
SFChronicle.com,
8 Apr. 2020
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But the dilemma the scientists on this vessel faced had less to do with ancient history than the near future.
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Chris Mooney,
Anchorage Daily News,
21 Dec. 2017
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That feels like ancient history, though, in a world where everyone and their corporate subsidiary is looking to draft off the market success of the Steam Deck.
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Kyle Orland,
Ars Technica,
10 June 2024
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