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