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long-ago
[ lawng-uh-goh, long- ]
adjective
- of or relating to the distant past or to remote events; ancient:
long-ago exploits remembered only in folk tales.
Word History and Origins
Origin of long-ago1
Idioms and Phrases
A time well before the present, the distant past. For example, I read that book long ago , or The battles of long ago were just as fierce . [Second half of 1300s]Example Sentences
As long ago as the early 1970s, he had gone on to support most civil rights-related legislation.
Not long ago, however, these outré components would have amounted to an interesting yet niche rap career.
Not long ago, a whole host of artists were plowing these fields—Eric Clapton, B.B. King, Johnny Winter.
For far too long, we have been coasting on a moral authority to which we long ago lost any clear title.
Not long ago, the concept of diversity was viewed as anti-meritocratic—even harmful.
Ages back—let musty geologists tell us how long ago—'twas a lake, larger than the Lake of Geneva.
Young Lamb's big cigar has been out long ago; but he pulls hard at it, wholly unaware of the fact.
That, like the matches, had long ago been used up, and our discoverers were reduced to roasted biscuit-crumbs.
It was a difficulty foreseen long ago in Socialist discussions, but never completely met by the thorough-paced Communist.
Not long ago I met one day in London a business man who, it turned out, was at this school with me.
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