as in now
for the reason that
as long as I've got my boots on, I might as well go out and get the firewood
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Recent Examples of as long as
This is the heart of Florida House District 100, which has been in Republican hands for as long as anyone can remember.
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Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2026
Poland lives as long as the nation remembers.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026
Because oxygen travels more quickly through shorter corks than longer ones, this approach allowed the team to observe mechanisms that often play out over vastly different periods—sometimes as long as multiple years—within an 18-month experiment.
—Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
As anyone knows on the digital side of things, waiting half a year to make orders that respond to live customer action data makes for lags as long as dinosaur legs.
—David Doty, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
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Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 20 June 2026
Poland lives as long as the nation remembers.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026
Because oxygen travels more quickly through shorter corks than longer ones, this approach allowed the team to observe mechanisms that often play out over vastly different periods—sometimes as long as multiple years—within an 18-month experiment.
—Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 19 June 2026
As anyone knows on the digital side of things, waiting half a year to make orders that respond to live customer action data makes for lags as long as dinosaur legs.
—David Doty, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for as long as
inasmuch as
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Literary Hub turned ten this year, which is basically forty in website years (but not 44, thankfully), and inasmuch as it’s been an ugly and convulsive decade in the broader world, it’s been pretty bad for online media, too.—
Jonny Diamond,
Literary Hub,
16 Dec. 2025
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Advertisement What connects Orbán’s targets is not ideology inasmuch as his contempt for their independence.—
David Pressman,
Time,
7 Nov. 2025
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