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The phrase "long dead" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something or someone that has been gone for a very long time, such as in the sentence: "The ancient ruins are long dead, their original purpose lost to time."
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Both are long dead.
Eugenie was long dead.
Besides, Gatsby was long dead by 1929.
Victorian playing-field snobberies are long dead.
The spirit of '76 is long dead.
Key witnesses are long dead.
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Traditional analogue electronic has count rate and pulse processing limitations (long dead-time, pile-up challenge).
They obsess over long-dead things.
But now the long-dead sheikh may rest reassured.
Back, too, is the long-dead art of communal reading.
Other long-dead acolytes lie under the surrounding gardens.
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