: of or relating to the past
long-ago leaders
: the distant past
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Keiji Horikawa, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025
Her search leads her across the country and back to the long-ago summer that shaped the lives of the teenagers in the painting, revealing how art, friendship, and unlikely hope can change everything.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2025
Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
In what long ago became a prestige television trope, each episode begins with a pre-credits snippet of backstory.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
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Adjective
The long-ago loss of ice and upward motions in West Antarctica also triggered massive rock avalanches and landslides in fractured, damaged rock, forming glacial valley walls and coastal cliffs.
—Keiji Horikawa, The Conversation, 22 Dec. 2025
Her search leads her across the country and back to the long-ago summer that shaped the lives of the teenagers in the painting, revealing how art, friendship, and unlikely hope can change everything.
—Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2025
Noun
Tidally locked, with one side permanently facing its star, the planet reaches surface temperatures of more than 3,140 degrees Fahrenheit (about 1,726 degrees Celsius) — hot enough to melt rock — and is old enough that any primordial atmosphere should have escaped long ago.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Dec. 2025
In what long ago became a prestige television trope, each episode begins with a pre-credits snippet of backstory.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 26 Dec. 2025
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“Long-ago.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long-ago. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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