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Used to be (3)

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<span class="explanation-format__ClueExplanation">'<span class="explanation-format__original">used to be</span>' is the definition.<br/ ><span class="explanation-format__explanation">(eg 'he was...' means 'he used to be...')</span><br/ ><br/ >This is all the clue.<br/ ></span>

(Other definitions for was that I've seen before include "Did live" , "Lived" , "(He/she) existed" , "(I/he) existed" , "Existed in the past" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent, The Mirror, The Star Tribune, the Newsday, The New York Times, the Universal, the King Feature Syndicate, the Penny Press, The Telegraph, the Evening Standard, the USA Today, The Times, the LA Times, The Sunday Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Daily Mail.
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