: 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
Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 19 Nov. 2025
This somehow seems both like not that long ago and impossibly ancient history, all at the same time.
—Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 18 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
For Fox and Fif, the sparks may have fizzled long ago, but the memories clearly haven’t — and neither has the mutual admiration.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 19 Nov. 2025
This somehow seems both like not that long ago and impossibly ancient history, all at the same time.
—Mike Ryan, IndieWire, 18 Nov. 2025
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“Long-ago.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long-ago. Accessed 27 Nov. 2025.
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