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
Only a handful of the original cast members are still around, but that's inevitable for a show that's been on the air as long as Chicago Fire.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 July 2025
May your love last as long as a basketball game feels to me (a.k.a. endless!).
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 July 2025
Lavoie said his business has attracted crowds in the first few days with waits as long as an hour for burgers, flatbreads, sandwiches, chicken, soups, salads, quesadillas, empanadas, wings and more.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 21 July 2025
And as long as Pancho Villa was selling tortillas, Trevor Boney figured, there was no urgency.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 July 2025
May your love last as long as a basketball game feels to me (a.k.a. endless!).
—Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 July 2025
Lavoie said his business has attracted crowds in the first few days with waits as long as an hour for burgers, flatbreads, sandwiches, chicken, soups, salads, quesadillas, empanadas, wings and more.
—Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 21 July 2025
And as long as Pancho Villa was selling tortillas, Trevor Boney figured, there was no urgency.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for as long as
inasmuch as
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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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