decennium

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The Apple of 2010, at the end of its decennium mirabilis, had a record of hardware innovation no other electronics firm could match.

From New York Times • May 1, 2022

In the last but one decennium of the sixteenth century, the first dramatists arose who pursued fixed literary tendencies.

From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob

Incipiendum esse primum decennium a die constitutionis summi Pontificis Sixti V. quae incipit "Romanus Pontifex".

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 by Various

Praestantissimum hunc virum, Cum a provincia Bengala, Ubi judicis integerrimi munus Per decennium obierat, Reditum in patriam meditaretur, Ingruentis morbi vis oppressit, X. Kal.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis

The principal poems composed in the last decennium of the eighteenth century . . . adhered still more to classic tradition.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)