not long ago
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: during a recent period of time : recently
I saw an interesting ad not long ago for a new car.
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Work to resurrect Rockingham Speedway — a vaunted venue that not long ago was bloodied and bruised, foregone and forgotten.
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Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2024
But not long ago, its departure upended hundreds of lives and foreshadowed allegations of a violent drug cartel infiltrating a factory in Mexico.
—Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2024
Indeed, Kevin Hassett, who was a senior economic adviser to President Trump, teamed up with Ghilarducci not long ago to devise a plan that would help low- and middle-income Americans save more for retirement.
—Michael Steinberger Malcolm Hillgartner Tanya Pérez Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 8 May 2024
Whether by the administration’s design or not, that could head in the direction suggested not long ago by Eric Dargan, the city’s chief operating officer.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
In the distance, the scraggly skeletons of tall, once-majestic trees reach up out of the cordgrass, a reminder that not long ago this wasn’t marshland at all.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
Between 2010 and 2019—not long ago—China’s annual GDP growth averaged 7.7 percent, but today the basic policy reforms necessary to support even three or four percent growth are proving difficult for Beijing to achieve.
—Daniel H. Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2024
For instance, dogs might have needed to learn action words because,
not long ago, more worked as herders or retrievers.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
Juxtaposed against where the Chiefs and the old San Diego Chargers stood not long ago?
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 20 May 2024
But not long ago, its departure upended hundreds of lives and foreshadowed allegations of a violent drug cartel infiltrating a factory in Mexico.
—Rick Barrett, Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2024
Indeed, Kevin Hassett, who was a senior economic adviser to President Trump, teamed up with Ghilarducci not long ago to devise a plan that would help low- and middle-income Americans save more for retirement.
—Michael Steinberger Malcolm Hillgartner Tanya Pérez Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 8 May 2024
Whether by the administration’s design or not, that could head in the direction suggested not long ago by Eric Dargan, the city’s chief operating officer.
—Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
In the distance, the scraggly skeletons of tall, once-majestic trees reach up out of the cordgrass, a reminder that not long ago this wasn’t marshland at all.
—Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2024
Between 2010 and 2019—not long ago—China’s annual GDP growth averaged 7.7 percent, but today the basic policy reforms necessary to support even three or four percent growth are proving difficult for Beijing to achieve.
—Daniel H. Rosen, Foreign Affairs, 27 Mar. 2024
For instance, dogs might have needed to learn action words because,
not long ago, more worked as herders or retrievers.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024
Juxtaposed against where the Chiefs and the old San Diego Chargers stood not long ago?
—Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
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