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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
long-awaited
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
report
▪ The long-awaited report has been a key part of the couple's bitter custody battle.
▪ The advisory council goes out of business now, having delivered its long-awaited report.
▪ If you are thoroughly bewildered by the long-awaited report of the Social Security Advisory Council, do not be.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Band members were celebrating the long-awaited release of their first album.
▪ It is hoped that these measures will trigger the long-awaited upturn in the economy.
▪ the long-awaited sequel to her first novel
▪ The court's long-awaited decision was unpopular with groups on both sides of the issue.
▪ The next morning we received the long-awaited order to attack.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Across the country, anxious United Nations workers awoke to the thought that the long-awaited Khmer Rouge offensive had started.
▪ And hopes weakened of a long-awaited cut in interest rates which would give a real boost to the Government's election prospects.
▪ Britain had at last experienced the long-awaited, long-delayed bourgeois revolution.
▪ In the summer of 1780 came the long-awaited summons.
▪ The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year, but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993.
▪ The advisory council goes out of business now, having delivered its long-awaited report.
▪ The election, locals said, hinged on discontent among some parents with the pace of long-awaited school repairs.
Wiktionary
long-awaited

a. having been awaited for a long time

Usage examples of "long-awaited".

With even iller grace than that with which he had gone for the milk, he shoved the long-awaited party invitation unceremoniously into her hand.

In the English Channel ports, masses of ships were assembling and rehearsing for the long-awaited invasion and liberation of Europe.

Before the feast could officially begin, the long-awaited blooding ceremony for the successful Hunters must proceed.

Totally reunited and in the best of harmonious spirits, the entire population of Doona and its guests began the long-awaited feast.

Did he, could he, appreciate how dangerous Baythan could be so close to a long-awaited fulfillment?

It carried two riders: a long-dog called Brickman and his escort, a female Mute warrior from the clan M'Cail, who were the donors of this long-awaited object.

Two years later, in 1985, NSA's basement complex became even more crowded with the long-awaited arrival of the CRAY-2.

Perhaps it was fortuitous that in 1880, the year Sickert first met Ellen, John Morley's long-awaited two-volume bi­ography of Cobden was published.

In the hubbub of controversy, the 'minimal' hypotheses were contemptuously dismissed: even if the long-awaited contact with the 'reasoning monster' did not materialize, it was argued that it was still worth investigating the cartilaginous cities of the mimoids and the ballooning mountains that rose above the ocean because we would gain valuable chemical and physio-chemical information, and enlarge our understanding of the structure of giant molecules.

India and Pakistan have held their long-awaited nuclear war: external intervention by US and EU nanosats prevented most of the IRBMs from getting through, but the subsequent spate of network raids and Basilisk attacks cause havoc.

Then the unusually mild 1998 winter in the Eastern United States was singled out as the long-awaited global warming "fingerprint," while the winter of 1996, when New York City froze under an all-time record of 75.

The long-awaited trigger point of the Flower of Life was drawing near, but at the same time there was evidence of the imminent arrival of the Human forces who had battled her husband, the Regent, on Tirol and other worlds.