long-standing
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I personally think it’s a green flag that he isn’t willing to change a long-standing tradition for someone he met so recently.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
Bowman believes one significant factor contributing to supervisory inaction was a long-standing culture of risk aversion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
"By revisiting a long-standing textbook explanation with modern tools, our work aims to improve chemistry education and strengthen the conceptual foundations that support chemical innovation."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
Less than a year later, Pride was standing at second base in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium, doffing his batting helmet to a long-standing ovation he couldn’t hear after doubling in his second big-league at-bat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Mathematicians ignored the logical and philosophical troubles with adding infinite zeros—especially since indivisibles or infinitesimals, as they came to be called, finally solved a long-standing puzzle: the problem of the tangent.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
