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Recent Examples of long ago
Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Apr. 2026
Viewers come to learn that Lori long ago abandoned her painting ambitions after a chance encounter with Julian, who publicly lambasted her work.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
The focal point is a mural that Philz commissioned from Bay Area artist Nigel Sussman that depicts San Leandro’s history, agricultural roots and local landmarks, from the famed cherry orchards to a favorite long-ago raceway.
—Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
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Noun
Not all that long ago, Fox and Telemundo likely would have blanched at an ad that encourages sports fans to get up from their sofas.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 17 Apr. 2026
Viewers come to learn that Lori long ago abandoned her painting ambitions after a chance encounter with Julian, who publicly lambasted her work.
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 16 Apr. 2026
Adjective
Summoned to the scene of a homicide one night, Kay discovers a body with links to a decades-old killer, a finding that calls into question her conclusions about a long-ago series of crimes.
—Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 20 Mar. 2026
The focal point is a mural that Philz commissioned from Bay Area artist Nigel Sussman that depicts San Leandro’s history, agricultural roots and local landmarks, from the famed cherry orchards to a favorite long-ago raceway.
—Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for long ago
Noun
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Even the most complimentary appraisals of Raphael, which celebrate his multimodal genius—painter, draftsman, architect, poet, surveyor of antiquities—also mention his exquisite social tact and career climbing.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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The prosecutor said the antiquities unit traced the books to South Carolina in 2006 but was unaware of their chain of custody until then.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
20 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Leslie and her gruff-but-caring, staunch Libertarian boss Ron Swanson (the incomparable Nick Offerman) became symbols of bygone bipartisanship, not to mention endless memes.—
Jennifer Armstrong,
IndieWire,
15 Apr. 2026
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That training — not unlike the kind of traditional first jobs peers his age would work for decades to come in the full-service gas station business of a bygone era — led to his full immersion in the family business.—
Howard Cohen,
Miami Herald,
15 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Recently Park spoke to the Times about the hardest parts of writing his new memoir, the importance of Project Blowed and taking his underground rap mentality with him from the gutter to the stars.—
Deputy Entertainment,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Apr. 2026
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Dunham knows her strengths as an artist, however, and this is not a memoir about love.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
23 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The charges came hours after the center's interim president and CEO Bryan Fair said in a video that the organization was being investigated by the Justice Department in connection with a now-defunct program that used paid confidential informants to infiltrate far-right groups.—
Sarah N. Lynch,
CBS News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Lai, an outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party who founded the now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily, was convicted in December of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiring with others to publish seditious articles.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Put another way, the physicist believes that in a little more than three decades, there is a 50 percent chance that our species will be extinct.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
19 Apr. 2026
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The northern white rhino is also extinct in the wild.—
Heather Abbott,
CBS News,
19 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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That mirrors the likely total awaiting the 10 Pac-12 legacy schools now scattered across the Big 12, Big Ten and ACC. Of the departed contingent, only Arizona is a lock to make the NCAA Tournament field as an at-large team.—
Jon Wilner,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Feb. 2026
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Pritchard, who’d notched three straight 20-point outings since replacing the departed Anfernee Simons as Boston’s second-unit quarterback, had six points on 2-of-9 shooting and was a minus-27.—
Zack Cox,
Boston Herald,
8 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The place also had an expired Division of Hotels and Restaurants license.—
David J. Neal,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2026
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His most common citation was for an expired meter — 14,409 citations in the year.—
Ariane Lange,
Sacbee.com,
15 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Known for drawing massive crowds to the small Georgia beach town, Orange Crush has long stirred controversy among residents and law enforcement because of past violence, arrests and trash left behind in its wake.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
FOXNews.com,
20 Apr. 2026
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The duty of making any kind of statement about press freedom typically falls on the president of the WHCA, who has a speaking slot at the dinner and, in past years, has highlighted First Amendment issues and the detention of journalists abroad.—
Ted Johnson,
Deadline,
20 Apr. 2026
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