long-standing

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He and his collaborators think it is possible that future gravitational wave signals will not fully align with general relativity, offering clues to long-standing mysteries.

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"We were very surprised by the results of this study as a long-standing research tradition suggested there would be differences in brain activity with episodic and semantic retrieval. But when we used neuroimaging to investigate this alongside the task based study we found that the distinction didn't exist and that there is considerable overlap in the brain regions involved in semantic and episodic retrieval."

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A surprise to many, this marks the first time New Edition and Boyz II Men have gone on the road together, despite their long-standing connection through Michael Bivins, who first discovered Boyz II Men.

From Los Angeles Times

The results also shed light on a long-standing puzzle in ocean ecology.

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Evidence from historical literature indicates that tropical grasslands are not ruined forests at all, but long-standing ecosystems in their own right.

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