long-standing
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The discovery challenges long standing ideas about how these extreme cosmic pairs form and evolve.
From Science Daily • Mar. 12, 2026
The discovery challenges long standing assumptions about where these unusual nuclear regions can form and offers new insight into the fundamental forces that hold atomic nuclei together.
From Science Daily • Mar. 8, 2026
Their experiments confirm a long standing theoretical model of two dimensional magnetism first proposed in the 1970s.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
Lab produced beta cells may also solve the long standing shortage of donor tissue.
From Science Daily • Mar. 2, 2026
Hector walks over to a door mostly hidden by a long, standing mirror.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
