long-standing

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As Coleman notes, “I would see if it’s part of a long-standing pattern and think about the psychological cost to you.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Others are more relaxed about the future under husband-and-wife owners Kevin and Carol Shanahan, both long-standing Vale supporters who have invested millions of pounds since buying the club in 2019.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Researchers believe these findings could help answer a long-standing question about how life diversifies so rapidly under the right conditions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

India on Monday declared the country free of the Maoist insurgency, fulfilling a long-standing deadline to defeat the decades-long rebellion.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

With this long-standing acceptance of Aristotle came a rejection of the infinite—and the void, for Aristotle’s denial of the infinite required a denial of the void, because the void implies the existence of the infinite.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife