: of or relating to the past
long-ago leaders
: the distant past
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Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Just a few of my questions were enough to trigger their long-ago pain.
—Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Critiques of intellectual corruption were made long ago, across the pond, in Julien Benda’s Treason of the Intellectuals (1927), followed by Raymond Aron’s Opium of the Intellectuals (1955).
—Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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Adjective
To Rovner, teaching students about relatively recent events is different than teaching about long-ago history.
—Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Just a few of my questions were enough to trigger their long-ago pain.
—Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
Orbiting spacecraft flagged these ridges as possibly being created by mineral-rich fluids long ago, which hardened some portions more than others.
—Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Critiques of intellectual corruption were made long ago, across the pond, in Julien Benda’s Treason of the Intellectuals (1927), followed by Raymond Aron’s Opium of the Intellectuals (1955).
—Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Long-ago.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long-ago. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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