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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India isn’t the only powerful country near Iran with long experience co-producing aircraft.
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Paul Iddon, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Glover was unable to overcome legislative questions about her commitment to upholding Connecticut’s strong reproductive rights laws and complaints that her long experience in the federal courts left her unfamiliar with the state’s courts.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2025
The actor, 82, spoke to Variety and Entertainment Tonight ahead of the 2025 Golden Globes about his long experience at awards shows, reaching back to his first win nearly 40 years ago.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Maistre and his animal specialists have long experience of handling real animals on set, but Camborde reveals that working with ostriches and the Fennec foxes was as challenging as working with lions, wolves and jaguars.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2025
In Bright and Wilson, Lamont chose jurists with long experience on the bench.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 28 Jan. 2025
In the decades after World War II, countries with a long experience of colonial pluralism tended to remain democratic, with electoral reforms deepening over time.
—Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
Our Pentagon leader needs to be an individual who has long experience with the military; a deep commitment to truth and moral, lawful living and successful experience specific to managing a large, complex organization and hundreds of thousands of men and women.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
Despite her long experience in politics, concerns remain about her fitness to serve as director of national intelligence.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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Paul Iddon, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Glover was unable to overcome legislative questions about her commitment to upholding Connecticut’s strong reproductive rights laws and complaints that her long experience in the federal courts left her unfamiliar with the state’s courts.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 25 Jan. 2025
The actor, 82, spoke to Variety and Entertainment Tonight ahead of the 2025 Golden Globes about his long experience at awards shows, reaching back to his first win nearly 40 years ago.
—Rachel Raposas, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Maistre and his animal specialists have long experience of handling real animals on set, but Camborde reveals that working with ostriches and the Fennec foxes was as challenging as working with lions, wolves and jaguars.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2025
In Bright and Wilson, Lamont chose jurists with long experience on the bench.
—Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 28 Jan. 2025
In the decades after World War II, countries with a long experience of colonial pluralism tended to remain democratic, with electoral reforms deepening over time.
—Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
Our Pentagon leader needs to be an individual who has long experience with the military; a deep commitment to truth and moral, lawful living and successful experience specific to managing a large, complex organization and hundreds of thousands of men and women.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
Despite her long experience in politics, concerns remain about her fitness to serve as director of national intelligence.
—Gord Magill, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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“Long experience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long%20experience. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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