annus mirabilis
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I am supposed to be having my annus mirabilis now.
From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2020
The annus mirabilis, Warner adds, was 1743, when one person’s average annual consumption hit 2.2 gallons.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019
This year has not been an annus mirabilis for China’s Huawei Technologies Ltd, the world’s largest supplier of telecommunications network equipment and second-biggest maker of smartphones.
From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2018
In the English literary tradition, 1859 is an annus mirabilis.
From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2017
The annus mirabilis of his poetic life was but two years behind him, and his achievements of 1797-98 seemed to him but a mere earnest of what he was destined to accomplish.
From English Men of Letters: Coleridge by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)