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well-established
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
well-established (=existing for a long time and respected or trusted by people)
▪ McCarthy is a well-established and successful author.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a well-established photographer
▪ The training program is now well-established.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For the later range of radiocarbon dates this calibration is well-established.
▪ Gain all the well-established health advantages of eating meals high in dietary fibre content.
▪ If the tank is well-established, however, they will normally find enough microorganisms to keep them going during this initial period.
▪ In recent years, it has become clear that the troves of these explosives are bought and sold in well-established networks.
▪ In some cases Labour's quangos merge existing ones, or replace well-established bodies.
▪ In the process, some old, well-established concepts, are radically reframed.
▪ Skyservice is a small but well-established Toronto-based charter carrier that announced in June it wants to start an upscale airline.
▪ There will be plenty of money available from rich companies, just as soon as socioecology becomes as well-established as graphology and palm-reading.

Usage examples of "well-established".

Solarian citizens on Earth and the older, well-established colony planets, the moral preachments of the Renaissance Association and the Anti-Slavery League have never made a dent in Solarian policy.

Merely apprising you that Damia’s escapades follow a well-established genetic pattern.

Using well-established calculational procedures they came up with a ridiculous answer: For any chosen temperature, the total energy in the oven is infinite.

Idarolan laughed, his eyes crinkling into well-established wrinkles, carved by wind and sun.

Even if the existence of such universes were to follow firmly from well-established theories-of quantum mechanics or gravitation, say-we could not be sure that there weren't better theories that predict no alternative universes.

To end that list, we add evolutionary biology, a very well-established set of models founded in the fossil record, chromosomes, and DNA, which explains similarities and differences among today's living creatures much more elegantly and effectively than its creationist or intelligent-design rivals.

But was he now spying on a secret and well-established colony, set up while the Xiks were still powerful, or just a hideaway for holdouts who had fled the order to lay down their arms?

Mean age hovered at twenty-seven, postdoctorate but still under the authority of older, well-established scientists on Earth.

There were generally a host of warning signs that a society was about to Sublime - a degree of society-wide ennui, the revival of long-quiescent religions and other irrational beliefs, an interest in the mythology and methodology of Subliming itself - and it almost always happened to fairly well-established and long-lived civilisations.

As a young man, following a well-established trade route with His uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, Jesus visited the tin mine area of Comwall With companions.

He showed that trial marriage is no mere modern conception but a well-established ancient custom, successfully practiced by the Polynesians and others.

While ufems and umales exaggerated well-established facial gender cues, and asexes eliminated them, the first items and imales had modeled the human visual system and found completely new clusters of parameters which would set them apart at a glance-without rendering them all homogeneous.