YORES Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

yores

noun

plural of yore

as in pasts

the events or experience of former times my favorite stories are about gallant knights and fair maidens in the days of yore

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Stay Close, another popular Coben adaptation, starred an ensemble cast of Armitage, James Nesbitt, Cush Jumbo and others as strangers whose lives are upended following a strange disappearance that threats to resurface their dark pasts, per Variety.

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 27 June 2026
In this timely and personal film, Hardwicke wanted to capture the lives of skateboarders, artists and musicians who strive to live in freedom while confronting their often-traumatic pasts amid a streetscape sometimes marked by violence, drugs and mental illness.

— Pat Saperstein, Variety, 18 June 2026

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Across the exhibition, photographs become places where personal histories intersect with broader cultural narratives, revealing how memory continues to evolve long after an image is made.

— PhotoVogue, Vogue, 2 July 2026
Lee’s portrait, searching and moving, first sparked my enthusiasm about biographies as histories of eras and of minds.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 1 July 2026

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