not long ago
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: during a recent period of time : recently
I saw an interesting ad not long ago for a new car.
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In the distance, the scraggly skeletons of tall, once-majestic trees reach up out of the cordgrass, a reminder that not long ago this wasn’t marshland at all.
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Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
Between 2010 and 2019—not long ago—China’s annual GDP growth averaged 7.7 percent, but today the basic policy reforms necessary to support even three or four percent growth are proving difficult for Beijing to achieve.
—Daniel H. Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2024
For instance, dogs might have needed to learn action words because,
not long ago, more worked as herders or retrievers.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
Juxtaposed against where the Chiefs and the old San Diego Chargers stood not long ago?
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
Instead of getting a superstar to turn things around, Werfel has about $60 billion to renew an agency that not long ago couldn’t master basic customer assistance.
—Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
As with the other podcasts Baby Steps traverses some topics that not long ago were considered taboo.
—Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Someone took a dining-room-table-size portion of them out of the woods not long ago, and irresponsible foragers sell masses of them to restaurants.
—Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
The end of goods disinflation is apt to put interest rate cuts, which many investors were expecting to see this month not long ago, on hold unless upcoming consumer price inflation reports prove more favorable.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
Between 2010 and 2019—not long ago—China’s annual GDP growth averaged 7.7 percent, but today the basic policy reforms necessary to support even three or four percent growth are proving difficult for Beijing to achieve.
—Daniel H. Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2024
For instance, dogs might have needed to learn action words because,
not long ago, more worked as herders or retrievers.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
Juxtaposed against where the Chiefs and the old San Diego Chargers stood not long ago?
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
Instead of getting a superstar to turn things around, Werfel has about $60 billion to renew an agency that not long ago couldn’t master basic customer assistance.
—Joe Davidson, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2024
As with the other podcasts Baby Steps traverses some topics that not long ago were considered taboo.
—Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
Someone took a dining-room-table-size portion of them out of the woods not long ago, and irresponsible foragers sell masses of them to restaurants.
—Daryln Brewer Hoffstot Kristian Thacker, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2024
The end of goods disinflation is apt to put interest rate cuts, which many investors were expecting to see this month not long ago, on hold unless upcoming consumer price inflation reports prove more favorable.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
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