not long ago
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The scene lost a founding legend in Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy not long ago.
From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026
As bleak, frightening and all-around life-ruining as the internet has proven itself to be, there was a time not long ago when the World Wide Web felt like a portal, not a black hole.
From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026
And not long ago, OpenAI suddenly found itself under such intense pressure from a resurgent Google that Altman declared a “code red.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
It was not long ago that England had a chronic lack of centres.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026
I did though on one occasion not long ago pluck up the courage to attempt the required sort of reply.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
