yesterday
of late
late
lately
latterly
recently
ago
formerly
departed
gone
now
bygone
last time
bypast
other
foregone
preterlapsed
just then
back in
old time
past simple
yesteryear
yester-minute
backcast
langsyne
back
historical
days of yore
recentish
yestertide
yore
former
nonrecently
retrospection
behind
bygones
by now
earlier on
time before time
prehodiernal
yestertime
sometime
modern era
prehesternal
old
from way back
just
semirecent
since a long time ago
forepassed
olden
quondamly
erstwhile
prior
way back
foretime
yoretime
lang syne
auld lang syne
old days
whilom
newly
recent
olde tyme
precontemporary
reminisce
time immemorial
historico-
time out of mind
historied
storied
celebrated
long ago
one day
agone
retrospect
at that time
yestercentury
antecedently
latter
previously
syne
historicalness

English words for 'the recent past'

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