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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The heady days when Merseyside was a centre of global trade may be long gone.
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Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
With their glory days long gone, Gary Emerson and Horace Mann high schools represent blighted eyesores that conjure up nostalgia and grim realities.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
The seeds of bombs planted by soldiers long gone remain dormant but alive just beneath the surface and yet the land rejects them every day.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
But because there are so many perpetrators of this type of fraud, and the money is long gone, there’s little recourse for Sarah now.
—Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2025
With their glory days long gone, Gary Emerson and Horace Mann high schools represent blighted eyesores that conjure up nostalgia and grim realities.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
The seeds of bombs planted by soldiers long gone remain dormant but alive just beneath the surface and yet the land rejects them every day.
—Michael Jerome Plunkett
september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
But because there are so many perpetrators of this type of fraud, and the money is long gone, there’s little recourse for Sarah now.
—Christine Ro, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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“Long gone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long%20gone. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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