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Since its creation more than a century ago, the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting has been in the lamppost business and little else.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
Over the last century, familiar words such as “time,” “exist” and “timeless” have been repurposed in technical contexts without examining what baggage they carry from everyday speech.
From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026
The Kentucky Derby has come to Louisville on the first Saturday of May for nearly a century.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
In their 2013 study “Golden Dilemma,” they found that over extremely long periods — a century or more — gold does appear to maintain its purchasing power.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
Today we are used to seeing the microscopic world, but when the microscope was invented in the middle of the seventeenth century, it caused a sensation.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Vocabulary lists containing century
Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
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