long experience
noun
: a long period of time during which a person has done something (such as a job)
someone with long experience in the UN
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Here, Lynch reflects for Variety on how the years-long experience of being part of a high-profile litigation process shaped her early professional life.
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Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
The long experience and tight teamwork of unionized camera crews, art departments, and so forth from production to production both maintains high professional standards and reinforces long-standing professional norms.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
The large-scale purge – with both voluntary and involuntary departures – has gutted the agency of its institutional memory and long experience.
—Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
That said, the long experience of governments trying to restrict young people’s access to temptation goods of other kinds—drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, pornography—justifies cautious optimism.
—Keith Humphreys, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2026
These glasses deliver a good value for the price and reflect RayNeo’s long experience with XR.
—Anshel Sag, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Terrace systems reflect Indigenous peoples’ long experience of living with environmental uncertainty in specific places and historical contexts.
—Stephen Acabado, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
The novel merges their long experience working crushing hours for local businesses on the cusp of unionization with the real-life saga of grocery cooperative workers fighting to earn a living wage.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
This is perhaps surprising given the iPhone maker’s extensive hardware expertise, and long experience with cloud services.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
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Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 8 Apr. 2026
The long experience and tight teamwork of unionized camera crews, art departments, and so forth from production to production both maintains high professional standards and reinforces long-standing professional norms.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
The large-scale purge – with both voluntary and involuntary departures – has gutted the agency of its institutional memory and long experience.
—Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 19 Feb. 2026
That said, the long experience of governments trying to restrict young people’s access to temptation goods of other kinds—drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, pornography—justifies cautious optimism.
—Keith Humphreys, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2026
These glasses deliver a good value for the price and reflect RayNeo’s long experience with XR.
—Anshel Sag, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
Terrace systems reflect Indigenous peoples’ long experience of living with environmental uncertainty in specific places and historical contexts.
—Stephen Acabado, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
The novel merges their long experience working crushing hours for local businesses on the cusp of unionization with the real-life saga of grocery cooperative workers fighting to earn a living wage.
—Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Jan. 2026
This is perhaps surprising given the iPhone maker’s extensive hardware expertise, and long experience with cloud services.
—Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
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“Long experience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long%20experience. Accessed 19 Apr. 2026.
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