been around
Example Sentences
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Competitive excel has been around for about 20 years and is essentially a puzzle solving competition, thinking logically about how you can create a general solution to a question which is scalable and fast.
From BBC
He's 38, he's been around the block a long time.
From BBC
OpenVPN: OpenVPN has been around for a while and is deemed very secure.
From Salon
He adapted it from a Norse yarn that had been around for centuries, and Lord knows if he was more inspired by his own child or by another successful version of “Hamlet” that played London a decade before.
From Los Angeles Times
Data centers — facilities that contain information-technology infrastructure that stores, manages and processes data — have been around for decades.
From MarketWatch
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