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Recent Examples of long ago
Noun
Not that long ago, mysteries and thrillers were a central element of any theater’s programming.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
5 July 2026 Not too long ago, the veteran defenseman known for his big hits and his physicality was part of the initial group that helped the Panthers rise to their current era of prominence.—
Jordan McPherson,
Miami Herald,
3 July 2026
Adjective
Now, 32 years after the double murder of Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman, Perrulli has written a book, The Forgotten Briefcase, about the long-ago love affair.—
Liz McNeil,
PEOPLE,
16 June 2026 The sequence built from this monologue fills more than thirty minutes of screen time, and is punctuated with recent flashbacks to the family’s life together, and even an extended long-ago look at the couple’s early days.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for long ago
Nine antiquities collectively valued at nearly $300,000 were returned to Iraq.
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Tessa Solomon,
ARTnews.com,
9 July 2026
Organizations are now attempting to deploy autonomous agents capable of reasoning and planning, only to find their efforts stalled by the antiquity of their own infrastructure.
With the memoir now out in the world, LaPlaca’s recollection of the relationship is available for one and all to read — and Weber has a lot to say about it.
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Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 July 2026
Decades later, Guinevere brings out her ghostwritten memoir at the exact moment her estranged sibling announces an art installation called Mother.
Separately, at least 15 informal miners were killed when a defunct gold mine partly collapsed Monday in the district of Wadi Halfa, close to Sudan’s border with Egypt, authorities said.
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Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
7 July 2026
She was also involved in negotiating plans pitched by developer Eastside Innovation to replace the former site of the defunct Indian Springs Mall.
Excavators uncovered stone artifacts and bones of Stegodon florensis insularis, a bison-size extinct relative of elephants, near the Homo floresiensis fossils.
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Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
3 July 2026
Pittsburgh's National Aviary recently hatched two Guam kingfisher chicks, a species extinct in the wild.
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.
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Rabbi Moishe Kievman,
Sun Sentinel,
27 Jan. 2026