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
Maurten’s head of sports tech, Josh Rowe, recalls how, not long ago, major races used to have sick buckets at the finish line for queasy finishers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026
That is a departure from not long ago, when mass layoffs registered as a sign of trouble or mismanagement and that a company needed to take drastic measures to right its performance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 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
The line he had read not long ago.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
