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long time

NOUN
blue moon
Synonyms
WEAK
ages forever and a day years
NOUN
donkey's years
Synonyms
WEAK
aeon all one's born days eternity forever and a day month of Sundays right smart spell time immemorial time out of mind years on end

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For a long time, it never looked like it would happen to Nixon either.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

Van Jones talks for what seems like a very long time.

From Slate • May 8, 2026

If you buy a stock and stay with it for a long time, and the dividend grows, the stated yield might not be high.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

Because this transformation is thought to take a very long time, it is surprising to see it in galaxy XMM-VID1-2075 when the universe was less than 2 billion years old.

From Science Daily • May 7, 2026

It’s taken me a long time, but now I get it, in a way I never did before.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam