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he left here long ago
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Sales rose from the year-ago quarter to $1.69 billion.
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Dean Seal, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2023
His memory of these long-ago events might be radically different from yours.
—Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2023
In 2015, a Canadian researcher discovered that in a long-ago lawsuit, Cabrillo had testified that he was born in Spain.
—Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
Yet, like the Biblical Ten Commandments — also written on stone like the king’s code — we the people today still are governed by laws Hammurabi influenced — especially his long-ago view of fairness and justice needed to remove chaos from society.
—Dallas News, 2 Nov. 2022
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Dean Seal, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2023
His memory of these long-ago events might be radically different from yours.
—Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 5 Jan. 2023
In 2015, a Canadian researcher discovered that in a long-ago lawsuit, Cabrillo had testified that he was born in Spain.
—Gustavo Arellanocolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2022
Yet, like the Biblical Ten Commandments — also written on stone like the king’s code — we the people today still are governed by laws Hammurabi influenced — especially his long-ago view of fairness and justice needed to remove chaos from society.
—Dallas News, 2 Nov. 2022
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“Ago.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ago. Accessed 6 Jun. 2024.
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ago
adjective or adverb
: earlier than the present time
many years ago
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