long experience
noun
: a long period of time during which a person has done something (such as a job)
someone with long experience in the UN
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Despite her long experience in politics, concerns remain about her fitness to serve as director of national intelligence.
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Gord Magill, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
The Dutch have long experience fighting at sea, and in a related initiative, Germany’s Sea Batallion—800 elite divers and other soldiers charged with protecting Germany’s waterways and harbors—will be incorporated into the Dutch Marine Corps.
—Elisabeth Braw, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2016
Each film also allowed Phillips to apply her long experience helping musicians create characters through clothes.
—Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
For example, my long experience as a white collar crime prosecutor has taught me that incarceration is necessary and just in serious fraud matters.
—The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
After World War II, Soviet military intelligence recruited many agents with long experience in sabotage.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024
In practice, Europeans had long experience with deficient, and even doddering, senile monarchs.
—Rebecca Brannon / Made By History, TIME, 3 July 2024
The United States has long experience tackling nuclear threats and is accustomed to devising military-technical solutions for given security problems.
—Ashley J. Tellis, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2024
The city of more than 2 million people is one of the most flood-prone metro areas in the country and has long experience dealing with devastating weather.
—CBS News, 4 May 2024
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Gord Magill, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
The Dutch have long experience fighting at sea, and in a related initiative, Germany’s Sea Batallion—800 elite divers and other soldiers charged with protecting Germany’s waterways and harbors—will be incorporated into the Dutch Marine Corps.
—Elisabeth Braw, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2016
Each film also allowed Phillips to apply her long experience helping musicians create characters through clothes.
—Valli Herman, Los Angeles Times, 18 Dec. 2024
For example, my long experience as a white collar crime prosecutor has taught me that incarceration is necessary and just in serious fraud matters.
—The Denver Post, 11 Oct. 2024
After World War II, Soviet military intelligence recruited many agents with long experience in sabotage.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024
In practice, Europeans had long experience with deficient, and even doddering, senile monarchs.
—Rebecca Brannon / Made By History, TIME, 3 July 2024
The United States has long experience tackling nuclear threats and is accustomed to devising military-technical solutions for given security problems.
—Ashley J. Tellis, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2024
The city of more than 2 million people is one of the most flood-prone metro areas in the country and has long experience dealing with devastating weather.
—CBS News, 4 May 2024
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“Long experience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long%20experience. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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