longtime

Example Sentences

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Mr. Paxton, in the words of a longtime aide, “was Trump before Trump was Trump.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Some longtime observers of Saudi Arabia, such as Ellen R Wald, the author of Saudi, Inc., feel like they've seen it all before.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

“We are literally just throwing the track in front of this speeding train all the time,” said longtime showrunner Ben Thursby-Palmer.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

To build it they flipped the longtime Silver Spoon diner into their modern seafood shack, alongside their business partners Donato Poto, Amy Specter Nickoloff and Craig Nickoloff.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

The thirty-five-year-old New Yorker was a librarian by day—and a longtime secret agent for the Soviet Union.

From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin