: of or relating to the past
long-ago leaders
: the distant past
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Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Could our own feelings, in fact, be the psychic residue of those long-ago experiences?
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
Rachel Corbett, Curbed, 28 Nov. 2025
The ready-to-eat apple outpaced its fussier cousin long ago.
—Benjamin Kemper, Saveur, 26 Nov. 2025
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Adjective
Whatever came down on that long-ago day had come from a place much farther away than another star or another galaxy, and if spaceship was the first word to come into his mind, perhaps that was only because his mind had no other way of grasping what his eyes were seeing.
—Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Nov. 2025
Could our own feelings, in fact, be the psychic residue of those long-ago experiences?
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2025
Noun
Collectors long ago replaced curators and critics as arbiters of artistic value, and more people today will hear about the Klimt price than will ever see a Klimt in real life.
—Rachel Corbett, Curbed, 28 Nov. 2025
The ready-to-eat apple outpaced its fussier cousin long ago.
—Benjamin Kemper, Saveur, 26 Nov. 2025
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“Long-ago.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long-ago. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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