long-continued

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Although he vigorously argued as a legislator that Congress couldn’t create a national bank, after losing that debate he later accepted as president that the long-continued “decision of the nation” should “over-rule individual opinions.”

From Slate • Dec. 11, 2025

Any long-continued dearth of novices would be as serious for the church as drought is for a farmer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aided by a hefty grant from the tobacco industry, the A.M.A. announced that it was embarking on a five-year study of the effects of long-continued smoking.

From Time Magazine Archive

The U.S. is apt to have long-continued trouble with Argentina.

From Time Magazine Archive

But we find further proofs of the long-continued and silent manner in which malaria exerts its pathological influences in those enlargements of the spleen which occur without specific attacks of sickness.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various