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longish

[lawng-ish, long-] / ˈlɔŋ ɪʃ, ˈlɒŋ- /






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This steadiness breaks from the long or longish gaps between wins for most three-timers, and could …

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023

When the original One City, One Book program premiered in 1998, it bore the longish but highly descriptive and aspirational title, “If All Seattle Read the Same Book.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 15, 2022

Weird, perhaps: Some of the characters are ghosts; there are longish passages of improvised song.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2022

To show what I mean, let me quote a longish paragraph from her latest book, “Esmond and Ilia,” a double portrait of her parents during the first years of their marriage.

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2022

Samuel Walter McCandless, Jr., fifty-six years old, is a bearded, taciturn man with longish salt-and-pepper hair combed straight back from a high forehead.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer