some time ago
idiom
: at some point in the past
Some time ago, I read that the restaurant had closed.
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The implication is that there is gas that was pushed out of the disk of the galaxy some time ago, but that gas wasn’t stripped with great enough pressure to be gravitationally removed from the galaxy entirely.
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Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
Jontay Porter was arrested some time ago.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
It was also reported some time ago that when Warner Bros Discovery splits in the spring, De Luca and Abdy would continue to lead the motion picture side.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Here’s the plan that seems right to us, admittedly from the perspective of outsiders who left Intel’s board some time ago.
—Charlene Barshefsky, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
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Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025
Jontay Porter was arrested some time ago.
—Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
It was also reported some time ago that when Warner Bros Discovery splits in the spring, De Luca and Abdy would continue to lead the motion picture side.
—Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
Here’s the plan that seems right to us, admittedly from the perspective of outsiders who left Intel’s board some time ago.
—Charlene Barshefsky, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for some time ago
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“Some time ago.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/some%20time%20ago. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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