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  "id": "ago.temporal",
  "term": "ago",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "ago",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "it is before now",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "past.temporal",
      "time.dimension"
    ],
    "interaction": "past and now together are a time before now",
    "novel_properties": [
      "relative past distance",
      "reference to present"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, passed beyond the heliosphere into interstellar space in 2012.",
      "domain": "spaceflight"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Magna Carta was sealed by King John at Runnymede in 1215, establishing legal rights later cited in constitutional law.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius before 79 CE occurred around 12,000 years ago during the late Pleistocene.",
      "domain": "geology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "past.temporal",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "time.dimension",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "ago"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ago.temporal"
}