During and Past

During

During preposition - In the course of.
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Past and during are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Past" with "During", this prepositions are similar.

Past

Past adjective - Having been such at some previous time.

During and past are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "During" with "Past", this adjectives are similar.

Both words in one sentence

  • Manga / Harlem Beat Bash Brothers: Sawamura with Naruse, with Kai in his past and during his brief Face–Heel Turn moment in ‘J’ Invasion Arc, and he later developed similar setup with Kobayashi.
  • Fanon and the Expanded Universe hold that the unsophisticated SG-1 Replicators encountered the advanced Stargate Atlantis Replicators at some point in the past or during the series and cribbed the ability to create human-form Replicators from them.
  • Video Game / Grand Theft Auto Period Piece: Every single GTA (whether set decidedly in the past or during present day at the time the game's release) is an intentional and, of course, over-the-top period piece satirizing that particular year.
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