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yesterday

/ˈjɛstɹdeɪ/ noun A2
  1. The day immediately before today; one day ago. (countable, uncountable) · Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow.· Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.
  2. The past, often in terms of being outdated. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) · yesterday's technology· The worker of today is different from that of yesterday.

Plural yesterdays

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And yesterday things went on just as usual.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 10 · B2
“I heard the Queen say only yesterday you deserved to be beheaded!”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 57 · B2
“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly: “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 79 · B2
Maxwell say anything yesterday about engaging another stenographer?”
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 17 · C1

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