long ago 1 of 2

noun

Definition of long agonext
as in antiquity

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long-ago

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adjective

as in bygone

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Recent Examples of long ago
Noun
Shukur Aikebaer and Zhengfeng Bo were friends who met in China long ago. — Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026 Thin and light laptops were a category in their own right not too long ago, but now almost every device outside of hulking gaming laptops is sleek and portable. — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2026
Adjective
Some people, including descendents of long-ago English, Welsh and Scotch-Irish settlers, now identify themselves simply as American. — Albert Sun, New York Times, 2 July 2026 The Semiquincentennial Commission was conjured into being by Congress back in 2016, during that long-ago summer when the Democratic Party was convening in Philadelphia and the succession of one form of representational liberalism to another seemed pretty well secure. — Christopher Hooks, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for long ago
Recent Examples of Synonyms for long ago
  1. antiquity
  2. bygone
  3. memoir
  4. defunct
  5. extinct
  6. departed
  7. expired
  8. past
Noun
  • Meanwhile, an electric color palette of zingy greens, bold reds, and Prussian blues–touched off with plenty of black accents–amplifies the property’s wildly original juxtaposition of antiquity and modernity.
    — Alexandra Kirkman, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • But the recording itself — which happened in eerie circumstances and nearly destroyed one of the trumpets — also underlines how our handling of antiquities has evolved dramatically in the intervening decades.
    — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of antiquity
Adjective
  • Yan has won over Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling, two players from a bygone era, in part because his stuff is so good.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Building to a poignant climax, writer-director Noah Segan’s elegant love letter to both New York and to bygone cinematic eras recalls both the 1970s, with its grungy urban antiheroes, and the 1990s, in its American indie ethos.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
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Noun
  • News that Nikki Finke had left behind a memoir — and that her estate was seeking a publisher — had half of Hollywood hyperventilating into their Erewhon shopping bags last week.
    — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Chapek’s memoir recounts his formative years growing up in small-town Indiana, where he was raised by his mother and WWII-veteran father.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026
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Adjective
  • The Dania Beach headquarters campus that once served as the nerve center of now-defunct Spirit Airlines has been sold to a Boston hedge fund that served as the stalking horse bidder in a bankruptcy court auction.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
  • When one engine says something the others do not—an old title, a defunct affiliation, a dismissed lawsuit, a company the executive left—that is where the containment work has to happen.
    — Ronn Torossian, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of defunct
Adjective
  • This history means Yellowstone is considered active rather than extinct.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
  • According to Mark Dixon, CEO of IWG, the world’s largest workspace provider, commuting could be extinct within the next 15 years.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2026
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Adjective
  • Judaism approaches these moments with deep sensitivity, offering guidance not to judge or criticize, but to bring dignity, comfort, and peace—to the soul of the departed and to those left behind.
    — Rabbi Moishe Kievman, Sun Sentinel, 27 Jan. 2026
Definition of departed
Adjective
  • Meanwhile, the legal-services groups under the expired contract are trying to figure out how to continue to represent their existing clients despite the lack of funds, all while new unaccompanied minors detained by ICE are turning up in shelters.
    — Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026
  • However, the available data covered only certain older models that reported to the expired domain.
    — Jesse Watson , Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of expired
Adjective
  • Trump has long derided past presidents who used sanctions to limit Iran’s economic ability to pay for its military and nuclear development.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
  • There is no methodology which precisely calculates this number, but good trial attorneys can usually get within the ballpark based on their past experiences with similar cases.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2026
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