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

But above all they were fed up with restrictions�of which the long-continued blackout was almost the symbol.

From Time Magazine Archive

This may be a long-continued process, not confined to old age, but merely making itself apparent then.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the Southerners' anger is also compounded of resentment against long-continued rebuffs and slights.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fact of this remarkable long-continued attachment of the poison to objects, indicating by this fixity that it is a solid, is consonant with the theory that it is an organism.

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