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• If ever there was a riches to rags—and back to riches—rock ‘n roll tale begging to be told, the decades-long odyssey of Leon Russell would be it.
  — Brad Cohan, SPIN, 14 Mar. 2023
• P!nk opened up about her decades-long connection with Britney Spears in a new interview on Wednesday (Feb. 22).
  — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 23 Feb. 2023
• The latest dispute is part of a decades-long battle over the science behind red snapper assessments.
  — John Sharp | , al, 11 Mar. 2023
• The Packers' success has been one of many contributing factors in the Detroit Lions' decades-long struggles.
  — Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 15 Mar. 2023
• But his decades-long acting career came to a halt after his second wife, Bonny Lee Bakley, was shot dead in 2001 in the parking lot of a restaurant where the pair had just dined.
  — Robert Blake, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2023
• Experts say the decades-long research may not directly apply to today's kids but shows how health effects can linger over a lifetime.
  — Janelle Chavez, CNN, 7 Mar. 2023
• Here are nine key moments from her decades-long political career.
  — Reid J. Epstein, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• Actor Robert Blake, whose decades-long film and television career was tarnished by a notorious murder trial, has died at the age of 89.
  — CBS News, 9 Mar. 2023
• In keeping with the theme, look forward to powerful survey of Lagerfeld's decades-long contributions to Parisian fashion.
  — Vogue, 22 Feb. 2023
• Directed by Davina Pardo and Leah Wolchok, the film chronicles the author’s decades-long journey to becoming one of the most beloved — and banned — writers in publishing.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2023
• Goldie Hawn is giving her take on cancel culture and sharing memories from her decades-long Hollywood career.
  — Charles Trepany, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• After a decades-long hiatus, news that a Russian engineer who worked on the country’s bomber program is requesting asylum in the USA has brought the issue of defectors back into the spotlight.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Feb. 2023
• Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with Affleck and Damon about their decades-long friendship, and about collaborating on a story of how heaven and earth were moved to sell a sneaker.
  — David Morgan, CBS News, 16 Mar. 2023
• Doug Bush, the Army’s chief weapons buyer, characterized the government’s decision to keep facilities like the one in Scranton in operation despite a decades-long absence of such sizable demand as a bet that paid off.
  — Missy Ryan, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Mar. 2023
• The delegates’ arguments followed a decades-long discussion about Adivasi identity.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2023
• The determination by the Department of Housing and Community Development threatens the city’s decades-long dream of creating a vibrant educational hub.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2023
• Living in an archipelago plagued by colonial policies, a decades-long economic crisis, and alarming rates of violence against women has pushed this generation back to reggaeton’s radical political roots.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2023
• But its establishment was still loosely rooted in a history of people hoping that UFOs are alien visitors—their proclamations sparking misdirected public uproar, despite a decades-long deficit of clear supporting evidence.
  — Mick West, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2023
• Mexican authorities’ investigation into the killings resulted in decades-long sentences for at least five narco-satánicos, according to the Associated Press.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2023

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