Fore and Past

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Fore adverb - Near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane.

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Past and fore are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Past" instead an adverb "Fore".

Nearby Words: foreground, foreland, foretime

Past adverb - So as to pass a given point.

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Fore and past are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Fore" instead an adverb "Past".

But in the scenes of the past these boundaries are broken and characters enter or leave a room by stepping 'through' a wall onto the fore-stage.

Source: Theatre / Death of a Salesman
Charles, meanwhile, desperately wanted a world where the demons of the past, the sins of the fore-fathers, didn't come back to haunt and ruin the children of the present, but fulfil that wish, his Geass created the one thing he despised the most: lies.

Source: Analysis / Code Geass
Getting Crap Past the Radar: A sailor describes the heroine of "No Name" is described as having 'a clean run fore and and aft'.

Source: Creator / Wilkie Collins

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