not long ago
Example Sentences
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He said a body had been found in the park not long ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 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
There, researchers who not long ago copied popular Western medicines are developing more advanced treatments.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 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
I went back to the Devon School not long ago, and found it looking oddly newer than when I was a student there fifteen years before.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
