long live

idiom

used to express the wish that someone will live for many years
Long live the Queen!

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Before Prevost was announced as the next pope, marching bands and chants of long live the pope filled the roads to the Vatican, Sherlock tells Up First. Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 May 2025 Winner: Windows 11 AI Features Both Windows 10 and Windows 11 now come with the Microsoft Copilot app (long live Cortana). PC Magazine, 2 June 2025 Even though the setting is in the now, the film has softer yet still chilly qualities of a grindhouse thriller from the ‘70s, down to Michael Krassner and Robin Vining’s atmospheric score — long live flute solos! Erik Piepenburg, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 American Riviera Orchard is dead, long live As Ever. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025 The social network is imposing a 30-day time limit on how long live videos can remain on Facebook. Michael Kan, PCMAG, 18 Feb. 2025 Gone are the days of safe suits and boring accessories—long live individuality! Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2024 Chants of long live Syria, down with al-Assad, and a group setting fire to a poster of the now former Syrian president. ABC News, 8 Dec. 2024 The New Haven show dwarfs all the others by having over a dozen bands — six of them in Toad’s Place’s smaller upstairs Lily’s Pad area — as well as an afterparty in Lily’s Pad where the musicians are encouraged to take part in a long live jam that will focus on Metallica songs. Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2025

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“Long live.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/long%20live. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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