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centenary

adjective as in century

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Weak match

adjective as in hundred

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Branagh’s film gets its release in the same year as the centenary of the Partition of Ireland, marking 100 years of a divided island.

From Time

Soon after he assumed the party’s top job in 2012, Xi set a deadline for completing national rejuvenation by the PRC’s own centenary in 2049.

From Time

Perhaps more significant is that the awards come ahead of the Communist Party’s centenary in July, a politically sensitive event for China’s leaders.

Nobel Prize winners at a dinner to honor the centenary of the birth of Alfred Nobel, founder of the Nobel prizes.

From Ozy

Then in 1989, I was asked to work on the Eisenhower Centenary.

On the centenary of World War I, Europe's suddenly facing a crisis of Russian aggression.

Martin Luther King asked President John Kennedy to issue a new emancipation proclamation on the centenary of the first.

Thus are the historiographical trenches dug for the centenary.

July 31 marks the centenary of the birth of the high priest of monetarism, Milton Friedman.

Seven years from this present time will witness the Centenary of the railway system.

The centenary of Petrarch celebrated at Avignon in 1874 tended to emphasize the importance and the glory of the new literature.

A large number assembled to celebrate the centenary of Cook's death.

It also thinks that the Tribune is a try weakly and unique daily, besides being a four centenary.

The fifth centenary of his birthday, on the twenty-eighth of November, was to be kept with great rejoicings therefore.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to centenary, such as: centennial, and centurial.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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