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long-standing
adjective as in existing for some time
Example Sentences
The U.S. military has a long-standing partnership w/ Qatar, including today’s announced cooperation w/ F-15QA aircraft.
The American Federation of Government Employees and other unions plan to challenge the dismissals in court, citing violations of due process and long-standing federal employment protections.
Extradition expert Ben Keith, a barrister at 5 St Andrew's Hill, told the BBC the UK had a long-standing but rarely used extradition treaty with Kenya.
Other planks in the current 20-point plan call on Hamas to disarm and relinquish political power, Israel to withdraw completely from Gaza, both sides to extend the truce indefinitely, a multinational board to secure and rebuild the devastated land, and the resumption of broader talks for a two-state solution to the long-standing Israel-Palestinian conflict.
"It answers a long-standing question about how nature builds these complex molecules and gives us a new way to replicate that process."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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