long gone
idiom
: having ended, died, disappeared, etc., at a distant time in the past
Those buildings are long gone now.
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Summer is long gone, but Courtney Claghorn's business is busier than ever.
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Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 30 Oct. 2025
The grassroots optimism of that earlier social-media era is long gone, though, replaced by a sense of posting as a last resort.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025
Even as the Internet enters into Phase 4, long gone is its limited mandate of merely moving data packets.
—Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
Buzz and Batch are long gone by then.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025
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Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 30 Oct. 2025
The grassroots optimism of that earlier social-media era is long gone, though, replaced by a sense of posting as a last resort.
—Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2025
Even as the Internet enters into Phase 4, long gone is its limited mandate of merely moving data packets.
—Mallik Tatipamula, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2025
Buzz and Batch are long gone by then.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025
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“Long gone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long%20gone. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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