long-standing
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
In response to the formal request for extradition from the US, a Home Office spokesperson said: "As a matter of long-standing policy and practice, we do not routinely comment on individual cases."
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
That marks an important step toward a long-standing goal in synthetic biology: expanding the language of DNA beyond the four letters found in nature.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 5, 2026
But Jefferson was fairly typical in this regard, lamenting the chasm between long-standing colleagues while building up the barricades from his side of the divide.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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