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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In Bright and Wilson, Lamont chose jurists with long experience on the bench.
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Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 28 Jan. 2025
In the decades after World War II, countries with a long experience of colonial pluralism tended to remain democratic, with electoral reforms deepening over time.
—Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
Our Pentagon leader needs to be an individual who has long experience with the military; a deep commitment to truth and moral, lawful living and successful experience specific to managing a large, complex organization and hundreds of thousands of men and women.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
Despite her long experience in politics, concerns remain about her fitness to serve as director of national intelligence.
—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
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Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 28 Jan. 2025
In the decades after World War II, countries with a long experience of colonial pluralism tended to remain democratic, with electoral reforms deepening over time.
—Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
Our Pentagon leader needs to be an individual who has long experience with the military; a deep commitment to truth and moral, lawful living and successful experience specific to managing a large, complex organization and hundreds of thousands of men and women.
—Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
Despite her long experience in politics, concerns remain about her fitness to serve as director of national intelligence.
—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
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