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• One evening not long ago, the neon sign at the Hotel Clark clicked on.
  — Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• There was a time not long ago when that was the whole point of building these things.
  — Vijith Assar, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2022
• What a change that would be for a team that was struggling to find two starters not long ago.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 18 July 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
• One morning not long ago, Wang came across a bag full of fish abandoned by the side of the water.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023
• Until not long ago, it was thought of as clothes for poor people.
  — Richard Kestenbaum, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• And, in the case of Sydney’s CBD, that would have been an apt description not long ago.
  — Adam H. Graham, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
• His wife suggested not long ago that they should get rid of them, maybe sell them on eBay.
  — Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
• That’s miles away from the dark predictions issued not long ago.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 5 June 2023
• There was a time not long ago when, for most around the world, tearing up the dance floor was but a distant memory.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2022
• There was a time, not long ago, when Pugh did, at least to outside observers, seem to have the pieces together.
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 12 Jan. 2023
• Aside from a few exclusions, everything in the store was 75% off not long ago.
  — Georgea Kovanis, Detroit Free Press, 17 Aug. 2024
• One even got very emotional about it, having lost their dad to the disease not long ago.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 16 July 2024
• The walkaround, or WA for short, debuted at Cannes in August and the second unit was launched not long ago.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2022
• Here, you’re reminded of how the city’s story shattered not long ago.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 29 May 2023
• But the Lake Travis product was a high-profile recruit himself not long ago.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Aug. 2022
• One winter day not long ago, a reporter from the Sacramento Bee called.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Dec. 2022
• And not long ago, that big, immovable paperweight was ready to lift off.
  — Steve Hartman, CBS News, 11 Aug. 2023
• Missing three starters forced them to promote three players who were part of their second unit not long ago.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Jan. 2024
• Quite a ride for a guy who not long ago was working on a natural gas pipeline in West Virginia.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• There was a time not long ago when Margot Robbie was synonymous with Chanel.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2024
• There was a time, not long ago, at the height of the #MeToo era that followed, when each morning brought with it a new, shocking allegation.
  — Annie Berke, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2022
• When asked not long ago about prospects for a fifth Superman installment, Reeve looked down at his torso and laughed.
  — People Staff, Peoplemag, 27 May 2024
• Jelly, an avid golfer, tried to buy a house in a community with its own course not long ago and was rejected.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 June 2023
• Jelly, an avid golfer, tried to buy a house in a community with its own course not long ago and was rejected.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 1 June 2023
• There was a time — not long ago — when there was near-universal agreement, if not about what should be in school libraries, then at least about what shouldn’t be there.
  — Chris Roemer, Baltimore Sun, 11 May 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
• The business started documenting the bus rides not long ago and found that animal lovers couldn't get enough.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 13 Jan. 2023
• The bust phase of the modern business cycle that so many Wall Street forecasters said was an inevitability not long ago appears to have gone missing.
  — Will Daniel, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2024
• One afternoon not long ago, Baraka called some prospective entrepreneurs into City Hall for a meeting.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024