Thesaurus results for AS LONG AS

as long as

conjunction

Definition of as long as next

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 These missteps will persist as long as leaders use generalizations as cognitive shortcuts to understand target groups. —

Alex Cooper, Fortune, 16 May 2026 My cancer was so silent that two gynecologists hadn’t considered it as a possible diagnosis, and at least one radiologist had entirely missed my tumor—as wide as a peach and as long as my hand. —

Nami Mun, The Atlantic, 16 May 2026 The plan, which still needs to pass through the Minneapolis City Council, would award Agape the exclusive rights to redevelop the site for as long as three years. —

Adam Duxter, CBS News, 16 May 2026 Despite the potential dangers of changing how pills look, each pharmaceutical company has the choice to make a pill of any shape or color, as long as the ingredients adhere to the correct chemical formula. —

Barbara Wolf, STAT, 15 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for as long as

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inasmuch as

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Literary Hub turned ten this year, which is basically forty in website years (but not 44, thankfully), and inasmuch as it’s been an ugly and convulsive decade in the broader world, it’s been pretty bad for online media, too.

— Jonny Diamond, Literary Hub, 16 Dec. 2025
Advertisement What connects Orbán’s targets is not ideology inasmuch as his contempt for their independence.

— David Pressman, Time, 7 Nov. 2025