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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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 Related: Republicans, concerned about dairy industry, urge calm about H5N1 bird flu The responding agencies have long experience working with poultry farmers, who’ve been plagued by this virus for the past couple of years. Helen Branswell, STAT, 3 May 2024 Shore up a weakness Democrat Barack Obama in 2008 picked Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, a generation older and with the sort of long experience in Washington, especially on foreign policy, that the first-term Illinois senator lacked. Susan Page, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2024 Her long experience helps her formulate questions closely tied to the candidate, as well as questions that require the candidate to show how their leadership experience and aspiration fits into a larger picture. Dr. Marlena Corcoran, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024

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“Long experience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long%20experience. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.

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