long-standing
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The finding challenges long-standing assumptions about how costly reproduction is for animals.
From Science Daily
Scientists at Aarhus University have overturned a long-standing assumption about how life's essential ingredients emerge.
From Science Daily
This strategy avoids many long-standing obstacles in phage research.
From Science Daily
Navlet had an idea for a fanciful park in Oakland, and took the concept to the Lake Merritt Breakfast Club, a long-standing civic-focused group dedicated to preserving and sustaining Lakeside Park.
From Los Angeles Times
Gold’s record-breaking run underscores T. Rowe Price’s long-standing favorable view of gold as a strategic portfolio diversifier, he says.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
