millennium
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Consumer prices have almost exactly doubled in the U.S. since the start of the millennium, so today’s $1 trillion would “only” be worth about $500 billion in 1999 dollars.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 5, 2026
In recent weeks, it has nearly disappeared and is hovering among its lowest levels since the start of the new millennium.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026
Trees are plentiful here, but they might not live a millennium.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026
The version found in the National Museum appears to have been used for teaching and includes rulers from the late 3rd millennium BC.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
Our archaeologist might therefore look at the Americas and conclude that Africans, despite their apparently enormous head start, would have been overtaken by the earliest Americans within at most a millennium.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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