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Recent Examples of long ago
Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Just golfed with Obama not too long ago … and look forward to finishing my round with Trump!
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2025
Daniel Brown, New York Times, 11 July 2025
Here’s the thing about that long-ago Celtics victory: While NBA commish Adam Silver would probably blow up the moon for a shot at a TV turnout of 42 million people, the reality is that a delivery of that magnitude is effectively impossible in this day and age.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 July 2025
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Noun
Just golfed with Obama not too long ago… and look forward to finishing my round with Trump !
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Just golfed with Obama not too long ago … and look forward to finishing my round with Trump!
—Kyle Feldscher, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
But a long-ago quip to four volunteers at No. 16 continues to shape his experience at Edgewood.
—Daniel Brown, New York Times, 11 July 2025
Here’s the thing about that long-ago Celtics victory: While NBA commish Adam Silver would probably blow up the moon for a shot at a TV turnout of 42 million people, the reality is that a delivery of that magnitude is effectively impossible in this day and age.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for long ago
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Built by the pharaoh Akhenaten, who was dedicated to worshipping the sun's disk, the ancient city was discovered in 2020 near Luxor by Zahi Hawass, one of the world's most famous archaeologists and former minister of tourism and antiquities in Egypt.—
Jamie Carter,
Space.com,
19 July 2025
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The purpose of seeking a humanities education is to learn the great texts and ideas that have stirred the soul of civilization since antiquity.—
Isabella Brannon,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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The bygone state revenues and rising costs, due in large part to inflation and economic instability, have contributed to HHC's operating deficit of nearly $100 million for next year, interim CFO James Simpson said during a July 29 board meeting.—
Jordan Smith,
IndyStar,
12 Aug. 2025
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Drifting between moving-image formats and collaging local textures and bygone voices, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s film reflects on loss and mourning as experiences of temporal dislocation.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
7 Aug. 2025
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He’s even written a Spanish-language memoir about his work, titled, appropriately, El Fixer.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
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The release comes nearly two years after Spears released a memoir of her own, titled The Woman in Me.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Associated Press What To Know The Russian Foreign Ministry accused Washington of escalating tensions by testing, producing and moving systems once banned under the defunct Intermediate‑Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.—
Sonam Sheth
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Aug. 2025
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The owner of a defunct Leominster used car dealership cashed a nearly $1.4 million IRS refund check that wasn’t meant for him, federal prosecutors allege.—
Flint McColgan,
Boston Herald,
2 Aug. 2025
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Since its passing, not a single marine mammal species in U.S. waters has gone extinct, even as use of the ocean has increased.—
Ryan Green,
Scientific American,
6 Aug. 2025
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Meanwhile, pensions are largely extinct except in government, 401(k)s are too often spotty as replacements, and rent absorbs a huge chunk of paychecks for those without equity.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The area, which also includes the Mann Chinese Theater with its famous footprints of departed stars, also has the classic El Capitan theater, owned by Disney.—
Michael Goldstein,
Forbes,
31 Oct. 2024
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But with Harden, Norman Powell and Ivica Zubac taking the majority of the shots instead of the departed Paul George and a rehabilitating Kawhi Leonard, the Clippers score 45.9 percent of their points in the paint (fifth in NBA).—
Law Murray,
The Athletic,
20 Feb. 2025
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On April 13, 2024, while stopping a Detroit woman in a school parking lot in Melvindale for expired plates and no insurance, Furman allegedly tasered the woman while forcing her out of her vehicle.—
Tresa Baldas,
Freep.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Food producers from Connecticut and nearby states send pallets of expired bread, popcorn, cereal and other products; they’re fed into the system, and the resulting feed is sold to New England farms.—
Don Stacom,
Hartford Courant,
1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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There’s nothing wrong with populist honorees or conservative honorees and, yes, a case could be made that past slates were a tad stuffy and/or curated to the taste of the liberal elite.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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Forest’s home kit this season is a pleasing nod to one of years past, a nice and clean design that is different to the last few years but is still identifiably ‘Forest’.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
15 Aug. 2025
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