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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U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2025
Foreign passports and bedding are strewn across the rooms, but both captors and victims are long gone.
—Mick Krever, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2025
The loveliest is that both books and gardens continue to bear fruit years after the storyteller and the gardener are long gone.
—Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
Summer is long gone, but Courtney Claghorn's business is busier than ever.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 30 Oct. 2025
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“Long gone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long%20gone. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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