long-standing

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The partnership is the most recent effort in Waymo’s long-standing commitment to making roads safer, Arielle Fleisher, the company’s policy development and research manager, said in the release.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026

Fawad Razaqzada, a market analyst at Forex.com, said: "The fundamental issue remains trust — or rather, the lack of it — between two long-standing adversaries who still appear some distance from common ground."

From Barron's • Apr. 13, 2026

Most notably, the agency scrapped long-standing plans to build a space station orbiting the moon, called Gateway.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

In March, the Christian-based movement updated its long-standing policy on receiving blood.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

“No boxes in the cells!” cried the little guard in Dutch, as indignantly as though this had been a long-standing rule.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom