no longer

idiom

used to say that something that was once true or possible is not now true or possible
I can no longer afford the car.

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But the problem with that method, Beach said, is that once families are residing in a hotel, they can no longer be verified as homeless by Cincinnati Behavioral and can’t get on the wait list for shelter. Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Oct. 2025 Texas Tech fans are officially no longer allowed to throw tortillas onto the field at football games, a quirky college tradition that began around the early 1990s and has continued each season over the years. Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025 While big-name corporations such as United Airlines would change their uniforms every three to five years, that is no longer the case, Herman said. Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025 With that, the question was no longer whether the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would disappear, but when. Evan Howell, Quanta Magazine, 20 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for no longer

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“No longer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/no%20longer. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.

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