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

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

“We’re not here to rebuild,” May said not long ago.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 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

She’d moved into the spare room above the garage not long ago.

From "A Monster of a Mystery (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #5)" by Franklin W. Dixon