bygone

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This sounds exactly like the bygone panic over cameras on mobile phones.

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past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones"

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The clearest senses and uses of bygone gathered in one view.

noun

past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones"

adjective

well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bygone.

noun

past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones"

adjective

well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"

See also: bypast, departed, foregone, gone

Example sentences

This sounds exactly like the bygone panic over cameras on mobile phones.

It is vain and fruitless to try to glamorize a pickled version of the things of a bygone era, as the author here does.

In bygone days hackers could claim apoliticalness in already "free" places which is also generally where they flourished.

Makes me think that before I die the idea of necessary co-location in order for people to collaborate effectively will be a bygone notion.

Warren Ellis's excelent "How to see the future"[1], addresses why we're perpetually bored by the times we live in, and are always nostalgic about some bygone golden age: ...We look at the present day through a rear-view mirror.

Orkut, however, is a rare misfire for the survival model: because Orkut is so old and almost everything from that bygone era of Google has survived indefinitely, it gave Orkut a 95% chance of surviving to 2018.

Yes it was very popular, and that show is still used as short-hand expressing a longing for an idyllic bygone American life, but the situations and reactions were only valid for a very small percentage of the US. It took another 15 years, with shows like All in the Family, for more realistic themes like miscarriage, impotence, and racism to be included as part of the issues that families might deal with.

At the other end, customers can finally view these bits, often streamed wirelessly, on magical slabs of glass and metal in their hand or what would have passed for a super-computer in a bygone age... All of this combined with a myriad of other factors has allowed anyone to start a billion dollar company.