How to Use ancient history in a Sentence
ancient history
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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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But all that now feels like ancient history.
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Scott Kennedy,
Time,
16 Aug. 2025
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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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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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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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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's just ancient history.
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Outside Online,
21 Jan. 2026
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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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That’s now ancient history — the couple has split, and even settled claims and counter-claims when the split got messy.
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Adriane Quinlan,
Curbed,
22 Jan. 2025
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That’s old news now, nearly ancient history.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 Aug. 2025
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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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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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That time frame feels like ancient history now, at least in political terms.
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The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Feb. 2026
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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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To this diverse group of graduates, that must have seemed like ancient history.
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Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
2 Apr. 2025
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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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The riots are now ancient history.
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Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
14 Aug. 2025
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That's ancient history in pop music.
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Jason Lamphier,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Jan. 2026
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This somehow seems both like not that long ago and impossibly ancient history, all at the same time.
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Mike Ryan,
IndieWire,
18 Nov. 2025
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Even the Sochi disaster is ancient history to these guys.
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Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
14 Feb. 2026
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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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That’s ancient history in this market.
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New Atlas,
23 Jan. 2026
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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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But regardless of its murky ancient history, it has been put to a wide array of uses through the centuries.
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Paul Cappiello,
The Courier-Journal,
3 Nov. 2017
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This is the apparent paradox at the heart of Mars' ancient history.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
14 Jan. 2026
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Seaver’s Hall of Fame statistics take their place in ancient history, as well.
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Bruce Jenkins,
SFChronicle.com,
5 Sep. 2020
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The Nest Wifi Pro makes buffering feel like ancient history.
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Juhi Wadia,
PC Magazine,
1 Apr. 2026
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The Nest Wifi Pro makes buffering feel like ancient history.
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PC Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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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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That’s enough to make yesterday’s loading bar feel like ancient history turtle speed.
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Chelsea Haney
october 30,
New Atlas,
30 Oct. 2025
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