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
Research finds that Asian elephants in Western zoos don’t live as long as wild elephants, and elephant researchers often bemoan the limited space, stimulation, and companionship available to elephants in captivity.
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Nitin Sekar, ArsTechnica, 5 Apr. 2025
Moreover, the mice survived nearly twice as long as animals who didn’t get the treatment.
—Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
The sensitive balancing act is set to come to a head next week, when Johnson plans to bring the budget resolution to the floor — as long as the Senate can advance it this weekend.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 4 Apr. 2025
That’s nearly twice as long as the Amber X needed, but the Amber X uses a speedy solid-state drive compared with the BeeStation’s spinning hard drive.
—PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2025
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Nitin Sekar, ArsTechnica, 5 Apr. 2025
Moreover, the mice survived nearly twice as long as animals who didn’t get the treatment.
—Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2025
The sensitive balancing act is set to come to a head next week, when Johnson plans to bring the budget resolution to the floor — as long as the Senate can advance it this weekend.
—Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 4 Apr. 2025
That’s nearly twice as long as the Amber X needed, but the Amber X uses a speedy solid-state drive compared with the BeeStation’s spinning hard drive.
—PCMAG, 22 Mar. 2025
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Also, inasmuch as awards season itself is a competition that requires studios and distributors to put all their eggs in one basket, A24 is focusing on the (also excellent) Sing Sing this year, spotlighting a bravura lead performance from Colman Domingo.—
Samantha Allen,
Them,
14 Jan. 2025
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Eighty is the new 68, inasmuch as the mortality rate of 80-year-old American women in 2019 was the same as that of 68-year-old women in 1933.—
Jonathan Rauch,
The Atlantic,
10 Dec. 2024
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