diff --git a/testing/test_terminal.py b/testing/test_terminal.py
index 6f926db34..3094649f3 100644
--- a/testing/test_terminal.py
+++ b/testing/test_terminal.py
@@ -400,6 +400,7 @@ class TestTerminal:
         """
         )
 
+        long_reason = "cannot do foobar because baz is missing due to I don't know what"
         common_output = [
             "test_verbose_skip_reason.py::test_1 SKIPPED (123) *",
             "test_verbose_skip_reason.py::test_2 XPASS (456) *",
@@ -426,8 +427,14 @@ class TestTerminal:
         result.stdout.fnmatch_lines(
             common_output
             + [
-                "test_verbose_skip_reason.py::test_long_skip SKIPPED (cannot do foobar because baz is missing due to I don't know what) *",
-                "test_verbose_skip_reason.py::test_long_xfail XFAIL (cannot do foobar because baz is missing due to I don't know what) *",
+                (
+                    "test_verbose_skip_reason.py::test_long_skip SKIPPED"
+                    " (cannot do foobar because baz is missing due to I don't know what) *"
+                ),
+                (
+                    "test_verbose_skip_reason.py::test_long_xfail XFAIL"
+                    " (cannot do foobar because baz is missing due to I don't know what) *"
+                ),
             ]
         )