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These decisions clearly suggest that long-standing, anti-unitarian landmark decisions such as Humphrey’s are on increasingly thin ice.
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Graham G. Dodds, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
Of course, India has a long-standing partnership with Russia.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
This was the perfect moment to reignite Gap’s long-standing history of portraiture — those iconic images that have always captured not just style, but identity.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
China is now focused on being seen not as a disrupter but as the defender of the international order, putting a new spin on its long-standing effort to secure a privileged position in existing institutions and to boost its capacity to set norms and rules inside them.
—Jeffrey Prescott, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2025
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Graham G. Dodds, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
Of course, India has a long-standing partnership with Russia.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2025
This was the perfect moment to reignite Gap’s long-standing history of portraiture — those iconic images that have always captured not just style, but identity.
—Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2025
China is now focused on being seen not as a disrupter but as the defender of the international order, putting a new spin on its long-standing effort to secure a privileged position in existing institutions and to boost its capacity to set norms and rules inside them.
—Jeffrey Prescott, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2025
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“Long-standing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long-standing. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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