Definitions
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- adj. that has been in existence for a long time
Etymologies
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Examples
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"As fate would have it, I now give the order to case the colors," Gen. Austin said, referring to a long-established military ritual in which regiments "uncase" their identifying colors when arriving for deployments, and "case" them when they pack up to leave.
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This position is impossible to reconcile with the long-established view that Congress has the power of the purse.
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Many companies on the list are in the long-established IT category that venture capitalists have traditionally put their money into.
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“As a matter of long-established law the writer of a letter holds the copyright to the content” is incorrect.
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As a matter of long-established law the writer of a letter holds the copyright to the content (anything you write is automatically protected by copyright, though formal registration is a useful step if you ever have to defend the right.)
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Quite as though it had been a long-established custom of his he struck out with all his legs and began to swim.
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"We will have to overhaul the long-established attitude that we can use as much electricity as we like and view the supply as someone else's problem," the newspaper said.
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More recently, in a message to the Irish hierarchy this year, the pontiff said: "It cannot be denied that some of you and your predecessors failed, at times grievously, to apply the long-established norms of canon law to the crime of child abuse."
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Aside from Iran/Persia, there are no historically long-established nation states in the region.
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There is a long-established 20-year rule on such matters – and it's 20 years last April since Blue Lines was first released.
Yasmin, Emeli Sandé and Maverick Sabre are taking a trip back into trip-hop
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