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After the 12-day war, the Israelis again assessed that they had lastingly degraded Iran’s missile program.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

In a phone call on Wednesday, French president Emmanuel Macron told Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that an Iranian escalation “would lastingly harm regional stability.”

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2024

But salmon and the elaborate relationship between these Indian people and salmon remained vivid, alive and lastingly important.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 12, 2024

“The oil price is only likely to climb more lastingly once the economic outlook begins to brighten, which should be the case next year.”

From Washington Times • Sep. 25, 2023

Did it mean that the effect of the poison was wearing off—that it wasn't as lastingly paralyzing to his earthly nerve centers as to those of Zeudian creatures around them?

From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various