no longer

phrase

—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 when an event swells to the size of a city — the New York City Marathon had nearly 60,000 finishers last year — climate risk is no longer solely a personal matter. — Vibhu Krishna, STAT, 2 Oct. 2026 The appointment of James means Van Houten will no longer have authority over the case. — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2026 One stark reality of the new identity is that Discovery Communications, which went public in 2008, two decades after the Discovery Channel lit up as a cable network, will now no longer have its name in lights. — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026 While the federal government no longer gives grants to artists directly (after the culture wars of the 1980s and ’90s), several of those organizations who had received funding did give grants to artists. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 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 6 Oct. 2026.

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