annus mirabilis

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Consider just some of the albums released during this annus mirabilis: “Like a Prayer.”

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2023

There was a plague, so Isaac Newton went home, and for him it was an annus mirabilis, which in Latin is a “year of miracles.”

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

But the study has limitations, not least that the team defined an actor’s annus mirabilis by the number of acting credits.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2019

That year, 1846, was to be an annus mirabilis, for a storm, fiercer than the wildest within living memory, wrought havoc among the shipping in St. John's Harbour, and overwhelmed many substantial buildings inland.

From The Story of Newfoundland by Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of