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long-serving

ADJECTIVE
veteran
Synonyms
STRONGEST
old-time skilled trained
STRONG
adept expert old pro steady versed vet wise
WEAK
battle-scarred been around disciplined exercised from way back hardened inured knows one's stuff long-time not born yesterday of the old school practical practiced proficient sophisticated up to speed weathered wise to ways worldly
Antonyms
STRONG
unskilled
WEAK
amateur green inexperienced

Example Sentences

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Zarif offered him the ambassadorship to Oman, still a strategically important post given the sultanate long serving as an interlocutor between Iran and the West.

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2024

After long serving as the domain of broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, they now prominently feature the streaming operations of their parent companies.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2024

The dining room is large, with a long serving counter and tables of six set out in rows.

From BBC • Jul. 21, 2023

If you’ve ever wished you could spend all day long serving food to BTS... well, you probably can’t.

From The Verge • Apr. 8, 2022

They travel in bands, marching in single file, their carrying poles pointed with a steel spearhead two feet long, serving a double use—a carrying pole in peace, a formidable spear in trouble.

From An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by Morrison, George Ernest