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Also, a while ago . Some time in the past, as in I ran into Barbara a while back but didn't get her new address , or John wrote me a while ago about his new baby . This term uses a while in the sense of “a short or moderate time,” a usage dating from about 1300.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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