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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 the entire 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 Star Tribune, The Wall Street Journal, the USA Today, The New York Times, the LA Times, the Newsday, the King Feature Syndicate, the Evening Standard, The Times, the Universal, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Independent, the Penny Press, The Mirror and The Sunday Times.
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