been around
Example Sentences
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WSJ | Buy Side: G.H.Bass Weejuns have been around since the 1800s, and they’re still a wardrobe staple.
America’s largest sporting-goods retailer has been around since the 1940s,, when a teenager opened a fishing supply shop in Binghamton, N.Y. with $300 in cash from his grandmother’s cookie jar.
“The problem has been around so long it’s become normalized,” said Amy J. Nelson, a senior fellow at New America, a D.C.-based think tank, who has studied Americans’ relative complacency about the threat of nuclear weapons.
From Slate
“It’s been around the longest, and I think it’s the show that everybody wants to be a part of that works in this little world,” Paine said.
From Los Angeles Times
“I grew up watching Bob Hope do it, Johnny Carson do it. So it’s a very cool thing to be connected to. As you know, I’m very interested in history, and this thing has been around for a hundred years — almost a hundred years — so let’s have fun with it, is my attitude,” O’Brien said.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
