"long ranger" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1993, N. N., Report on 2nd Comparative Workshop: Nostratic",
          "text": "He thinks that long-rangers often use Pokorny's material uncritically (\"fishing expeditions in Pokorny's\") although it is considered to be dated in many respects by the modern state of Indo-European studies.",
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          "ref": "1995, Donald Ringe, Conference Report, Twelfth International Conference on Historical Linguistics",
          "text": "Yes, all the long rangers, as far as I can tell, are not controlling for the possibility that the similarities between languages they are working on fall within the range of what one would expect by chance alone.",
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          "ref": "2002, Alexander Vovin, Building a 'Bum-pa for Sino-Caucasian, page 160",
          "text": "This painstaking process of checking texts and cultural data rather than dictionaries may seem to be not worth the candle for some (but not all) long-rangers.",
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        "A historical linguist engaged in search of long-range relationships among already established language families by comparing proto-languages."
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        "(linguistics) A historical linguist engaged in search of long-range relationships among already established language families by comparing proto-languages."
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