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Recent Examples of long ago
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
One take cracked 500 weeks not long ago, while a second edition has spent 126 frames on the roster throughout the years.
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Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Liz McNeil,
PEOPLE,
16 June 2026
The sequence built from this monologue fills more than thirty minutes of screen time, and is punctuated with recent flashbacks to the family’s life together, and even an extended long-ago look at the couple’s early days.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
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Noun
His World Cup legacy was sealed long ago.
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Jack Lang,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
One take cracked 500 weeks not long ago, while a second edition has spent 126 frames on the roster throughout the years.
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Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Adjective
Now, 32 years after the double murder of Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman, Perrulli has written a book, The Forgotten Briefcase, about the long-ago love affair.
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Liz McNeil,
PEOPLE,
16 June 2026
The sequence built from this monologue fills more than thirty minutes of screen time, and is punctuated with recent flashbacks to the family’s life together, and even an extended long-ago look at the couple’s early days.
—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for long ago
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Last year, the NCMM received 113 Benin Bronzes from the Netherlands—the largest single return of Benin antiquities directly linked to the 1897 British looting, according to the commission.
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Priceless artifacts stolen from these temples would then end up in the hands of unscrupulous antiquities dealers.
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Reminiscent of a bygone era, these massive ships often serve as floating ambassadors on diplomatic missions.
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In this context, many proslavery Americans saw the song’s protagonist as longing not just for bygone days but for a return to slavery.
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Salama is also the author of the memoir Stranger in the Desert, a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
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Baumes adapted former cruise ship hostess Jeraldine Saunders's 1974 memoir The Love Boats for television as The Love Boat.
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Syria has been without a parliament since the December 2024 offensive by insurgents led by al-Sharaa’s now defunct Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, which ended the Assad family’s five-decade dynasty.
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Prosecutors in 2017 charged him with six counts of embezzlement, grand theft, money laundering and misappropriation of public funds in connection with his time as CEO of the now-defunct Stockton Boys and Girls Club.
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Excavators uncovered stone artifacts and bones of Stegodon florensis insularis, a bison-size extinct relative of elephants, near the Homo floresiensis fossils.
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Pittsburgh's National Aviary recently hatched two Guam kingfisher chicks, a species extinct in the wild.
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An expired job ad for an experienced English interpreter at the UN advertised a salary range between $131,084 and $171,644.
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In worst-case scenarios, application of expired makeup could lead to irritation, breakouts, or eye infections.
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Then Mookie Betts drove him in with a comebacker over the mound and past flailing second baseman Edouard Julien.
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Casemiro’s performance against Japan was a microcosm of his past three seasons at club level.
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Suddenly, photos, videos, or important documents are just… gone.
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Room by room, the author takes us through the house, now long gone.
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“Long ago.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/long%20ago. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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