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Recent Examples of long ago
EW.com, 20 June 2025
In many cases, human actions long ago are the reason ticks carry these diseases so widely today.
—Sean Lawrence, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
David Bloom, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
But Flynt was the subject of plenty of mass media law classes at universities nationwide, including a long-ago Florida International University graduate level journalism class.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 12 June 2025
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Noun
The first-gen roam the mainland naked because of the idea that their clothes disintegrated long ago, and their appearances are characterized by veins that protrude from their body in revolting knots.
—EW.com, 20 June 2025
In many cases, human actions long ago are the reason ticks carry these diseases so widely today.
—Sean Lawrence, The Conversation, 18 June 2025
Adjective
For the generation of family owners now selling to private equity, especially in bigger markets, the returns on their long-ago investments are proving massive.
—David Bloom, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
But Flynt was the subject of plenty of mass media law classes at universities nationwide, including a long-ago Florida International University graduate level journalism class.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for long ago
Noun
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First and foremost, the movie is a period piece revisiting the horrors of the AIDS epidemic with actual horror, transforming HIV-positive patients into humans whose bodies gradually turn to marble, like X-Men crossed with the Greek antiquities wing at the Louvre.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2025
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America had brought into the world an agent of displacement no less profound than what antiquity had known — the raw power of capitalism.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
Adjective
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The idea that only land invasions can achieve military objectives belongs to a bygone era—one that has cost the United States dearly in blood and treasure.—
David A. Deptula,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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The findings will be published, and the fragments archived for future academic study, with plans for eventual public display, allowing contemporary audiences to witness these extraordinary artistic legacies from a bygone era.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
20 June 2025
Noun
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In this conversation, six-foot-two author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres, Moo and Lucky) compares notes with her friend and counterpoint, six-foot-two novelist Susan Swan, author of the new memoir Big Girls Don’t Cry about the way Swan’s Amazonian size shaped her life.—
Jane Smiley
June 20,
Literary Hub,
20 June 2025
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His 2023 memoir, Straight Shooter, is a New York Times bestseller.—
Danyel Smith,
Rolling Stone,
18 June 2025
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One is even housed in a former Old County Buffet, the now defunct all-you-can-eat restaurant chain which closed its last Illinois restaurant five years ago.—
Robert Channick,
Chicago Tribune,
21 June 2025
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Six years ago, two school executives from the now defunct A3 charter school were embroiled in controversy.—
Windi Eklund,
Oc Register,
17 June 2025
Adjective
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Deep-seafloor-dwelling foraminifera, which were far away from the surface and were able to keep feeding on the remains of dead organisms, were mostly fine, but nine out of 10 planktonic species went extinct.—
Tim Vernimmen,
JSTOR Daily,
19 June 2025
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Our species once coexisted for tens of thousands of years and interbred with both Denisovans and Neanderthals before the two went extinct.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
18 June 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
Adjective
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Tasks like taking out the trash, tossing expired items from the fridge and pantry, making the bed, and wiping down surfaces often will help maintain a clean house.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
14 June 2025
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The company’s claim that Lightfoot’s pandemic decree cost it millions comes despite the fact a Tribune investigation found the city issued more than 35,000 parking tickets during the time the mayor told motorists they wouldn’t get dinged for parking at expired meters.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2025
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These are the exact same complaints about the season 1 VIPs, and while there is some speculation this is done on purpose to be campy like past genre films, that does not seem to be the case.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
28 June 2025
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Illinois saw its first human case of West Nile virus a few days ago, according to past reporting.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
28 June 2025
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