long-standing

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Department of Education’s new policy, announced in August, widely expanded long-standing federal data collection from universities.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

As Coleman notes, “I would see if it’s part of a long-standing pattern and think about the psychological cost to you.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Jake Bailey, a professor at the University of Minnesota who studies how microbes influence Earth's systems, said the findings challenge long-standing assumptions about these rock structures.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

India on Monday declared the country free of the Maoist insurgency, fulfilling a long-standing deadline to defeat the decades-long rebellion.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

“No boxes in the cells!” cried the little guard in Dutch, as indignantly as though this had been a long-standing rule.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom