longtime

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He even found an avenue to mention climate change, an issue that has been a longtime concern of his.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Cornyn and his supporters have argued the longtime senator would be a stronger general election candidate than Paxton in a cycle in which the national environment is expected to be tough for Republicans.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026

It is a big change from how the Seattle chain built a global empire, when longtime leader Howard Schultz largely relied on word-of-mouth and Starbucks’s thousands of locations to generate attention.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

They picked up their main abode for $24 million in 2020, the same year that Grede is said to have listed her longtime London townhouse for $6.8 million.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

In a gesture to its longtime, long-suffering ally, Peru symbolically gave two miles of its shoreline to Bolivia in 1992.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann