In a sentence
Six example sentences with long-term, each labelled with its topic.
A long-term bond pays less each year than the risk suggests, but it survives storms that wreck faster funds.
Finance
Sprinting twice a week brings quick gains, but the long-term benefit comes from walking on all the other days.
Fitness
The reef study is long-term by design, with divers photographing the same ten squares every March since 1994.
Environment
Sleep helps move facts into long-term memory, which is why cramming until dawn yields so little by exam time.
Psychology
The club offered the rookie a long-term deal, five seasons at a fixed salary, betting on growth over flexibility.
Basketball
Investors asked about long-term margins, not next quarter's growth, and the founders had no slide for that.
Startups
Study long-term until you keep it
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