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
The long-continued depression has brought unprecedented unemployment, a catastrophic fall in commodity prices and a volume of economic losses which threatens our financial institutions.
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Never again must free Americans face the specter of long-continued, mass unemployment.
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Such eccentricities, augmented by the strain of long-continued competition, vary from temporary insanity to tango dancing.
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The ear had probably been saved from ulceration of the drum membrane, long-continued suppurative otitis, and perhaps from permanent impairment of hearing.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various