not long ago
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And yet, not long ago, I felt the sudden impulse to tattoo her name on my arm.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
But not long ago, Ellsworth says she was so cash poor that she needed an interest-only loan for her Austin, Texas, home and maxed-out credit cards.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 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
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
