long since

adverb

|Updated on: 6 Aug 2018

Definition of long since

1 : long ago

promises long since forgotten

2 : for a long time

has long since been a devoted friend

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The Claypool Hotel has long since been torn down; Claypool Court, across from Circle Centre Mall, sits at that corner.

— dawn mitchell, Indianapolis Star, "True crime: The 'dresser drawer murder' at the Claypool Hotel," 13 July 2018
The telecom firm said that customer confusion with Time Warner Cable, long since spun off from the company, was the reason for the change.

— claire atkinson, NBC News, "Time Warner is now Warner Media, and a lot of executives are leaving," 15 June 2018
The wooden hull of the ship, which sank in the Java Sea, has long since disintegrated, but its cargo of coffers vital clues about the vessel.

— james rogers, Fox News, "Shipwreck mystery solved thanks to 800-year-old 'Made in China' label," 16 May 2018
Although the party has long since disbanded, the clinic has symbolized the chapter’s legacy for generations of patients.

— christine willmsen, The Seattle Times, "Black Panther Party’s legacy to help sick, poor lives on at Seattle health clinic," 25 Apr. 2018
But no one saw it, since the textiles themselves, and records of their whereabouts, had long since disappeared.

— nancy g. heller, Philly.com, "India's 'dancing monks' visit Drexel Saturday on first-ever U.S. tour," 23 Apr. 2018
The Pelicans have not played this this well for this long since the franchise moved to New Orleans in 2002.

— jeff duncan, NOLA.com, "Are the New Orleans Pelicans better without Boogie?," 7 Mar. 2018
The 46-game on-base streak is the longest in the majors this season and longest since Freddie Freeman's 46-game streak in 2016.

— stefan stevenson, star-telegram, "Shin-Soo Choo ties Julio Franco's Rangers' on-base record," 7 July 2018
The Tigers' losing streak was two games longer than any other team in Major League Baseball this season, and the longest since the L.A. Dodgers dropped 11 in a row last September.

— george sipple, Detroit Free Press, "Nicholas Castellanos, Jordan Zimmermann help Tigers end skid, 9-1," 1 July 2018

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in the meaning defined at sense 1

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