long-standing

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Crime and homelessness are down, and a long-standing brickyard will soon make way for a mixed-use development.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

The despair and hopelessness are a response to feeling powerless in the face of injustice and watching long-standing norms be routinely broken.

From Salon • May 28, 2026

As part of its long-standing pattern, though, the markets shrugged off the news.

From Barron's • May 26, 2026

Creative stewardship has passed from long-standing producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson to Amazon MGM.

From BBC • May 24, 2026

Mathematicians ignored the logical and philosophical troubles with adding infinite zeros—especially since indivisibles or infinitesimals, as they came to be called, finally solved a long-standing puzzle: the problem of the tangent.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife