Long-running

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Operating for a relatively extended period of time.

    "The long-running play finally closed on Broadway, just short of setting a record for longest playing."

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"The long-running game show has a unique format, in which three contestants vie to be the first to supply the question to an answer they are given."

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