Ago and Now

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Ago adverb - Earlier than the present time.

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Now is an antonym for ago.

Now adverb - At the present time.

Usage example: that company doesn't make those toys now because they are unsafe

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Ago is an antonym for now.

They turned inwards centuries ago and now control only a few star systems, considering space travel and colonization a noble savage sort of concept.

Source: Literature / Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations
I don't know, but maybe somehow we lowered the bar... a long time ago and now we're just sitting in the stink of it all.

Source: Self Deprecation / Western Animation
Or things that used to be music 200 years ago and now are a distorted nightmarish aural equivalent of an Undercrank.

Source: Video Game / Dead Space 3

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