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long-term
adjective as in lasting
Strongest matches
abiding, continuing, deep-rooted, durable, eternal, everlasting, indelible, lifelong, longstanding, permanent, stable
Strong match
adjective as in longitudinal
Strongest matches
Strong matches
continuing, endlong, long-run, protensive
Weak matches
continued, drawn-out, elongated, extensive, linear, longstanding, overall, prolonged, protracted
adjective as in overall
Strongest matches
Weak matches
noun as in long run
Strongest match
Weak matches
distant future, long duration, long period, long term, remote future
Example Sentences
Audit Scotland said the government "need to focus more on longer-term reform, including difficult decisions about what the NHS should potentially stop doing".
Through long-term monitoring in one of the most pristine places in Africa, the study's implications are significant.
However, this is the first time teabags have been used for a large-scale, long-term study and the tea leaves have revealed which types of wetlands are leaking the most carbon.
Lucore said the researchers don't know yet whether this has long-term impacts for health in wild animals.
"Scarring is a localization around orbits that come back on themselves. These returns have no long-term consequence in our normal classical world -- they are soon forgotten. But they are remembered forever in the quantum world."
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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