long-term
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Management expects to have more than 7,000 stores nationwide in the long term.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Grandparents fund them but don’t control them long term.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
The thing about the long term is that time catches up to you eventually.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Its small size could make it practical for long term lunar satellite observations.
From Science Daily • Jun. 6, 2026
This was important in the long term, because in the nineteenth century it would provide a definitive test of whether light does travel as a wave or whether it travels as a stream of particles.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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