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Recent Examples of long ago
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
One take cracked 500 weeks not long ago, while a second edition has spent 126 frames on the roster throughout the years.
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Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
Gurman claims this will be Siri's biggest reboot since its long-ago debut, and that it will be supported by Gemini, thanks to Apple's AI partnership with Google, announced earlier this year.
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Kimberly Gedeon,
PC Magazine,
8 June 2026
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Noun
His World Cup legacy was sealed long ago.
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Jack Lang,
New York Times,
26 June 2026
One take cracked 500 weeks not long ago, while a second edition has spent 126 frames on the roster throughout the years.
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Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
Adjective
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.
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Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
Gurman claims this will be Siri's biggest reboot since its long-ago debut, and that it will be supported by Gemini, thanks to Apple's AI partnership with Google, announced earlier this year.
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Kimberly Gedeon,
PC Magazine,
8 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for long ago
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Last year, the NCMM received 113 Benin Bronzes from the Netherlands—the largest single return of Benin antiquities directly linked to the 1897 British looting, according to the commission.
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Priceless artifacts stolen from these temples would then end up in the hands of unscrupulous antiquities dealers.
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This governance would be designed ex ante to manage volatility, concentrations of power, and systemic risk rather than retrofitted from a bygone era.
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Neither will seek to engage in the trap of nostalgia for a bygone era.
Noun
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Salama is also the author of the memoir Stranger in the Desert, a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.
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Baumes adapted former cruise ship hostess Jeraldine Saunders's 1974 memoir The Love Boats for television as The Love Boat.
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Syria has been without a parliament since the December 2024 offensive by insurgents led by al-Sharaa’s now defunct Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, which ended the Assad family’s five-decade dynasty.
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Prosecutors in 2017 charged him with six counts of embezzlement, grand theft, money laundering and misappropriation of public funds in connection with his time as CEO of the now-defunct Stockton Boys and Girls Club.
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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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Pittsburgh's National Aviary recently hatched two Guam kingfisher chicks, a species extinct in the wild.
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Customers can use their expired coupons until July 13.
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King recommends going through your refrigerator to throw away any expired or rotten food before cleaning the inside with soap and hot water.
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Representatives from two local tribes draw a parallel between the gather and past efforts to expel their people from their ancestral lands, and say the horses are intertwined with their culture.
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In his sixth and widely expected final World Cup, Argentinian Lionel Messi has scored six times already, including a hat trick in his opening game, catapulting the 39-year-old past Miroslav Klose’s 2014 record of 16 World Cup goals.
Adjective
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Suddenly, photos, videos, or important documents are just… gone.
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Room by room, the author takes us through the house, now long gone.
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“Long ago.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/long%20ago. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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