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centennial

[sen-ten-ee-uhl] / sɛnˈtɛn i əl /
ADJECTIVE
century
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ADJECTIVE
hundred
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“We’ve spent 100 years writing about the city and for the centennial, we wanted to hear from it,” LiCalzi said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass celebrated the paper’s centennial in a written statement.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 16, 2026

Calls for a memorial began almost immediately, with sentiments intensifying in the years around 1832, the centennial of Washington’s birth.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 3, 2026

The City of Brotherly Love reached a toasty 91 degrees at the hottest part of the day on the centennial July 4, 1876, according to the National Weather Service.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Several weeks after the centennial gathering in Philadelphia, Susan B. Anthony visited Elizabeth Cady Stanton at her new home in Tenafly, New Jersey.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

It’s one of several Los Angeles landmarks celebrating their centennials this year, a reflection of how rapidly L.A. was growing in the early 1920s.

From New York Times Aug. 25, 2023

Turkcan said millennials were born between 1979 and 1996, and centennials - the next major generation for baseball - began in 1997 and ended between four and eight years ago.

From Washington Times Feb. 27, 2019

Turkcan said millennials were born between 1979 and 1996, and centennials — the next major generation for baseball — began in 1997 and ended between four and eight years ago.

From Seattle Times Feb. 26, 2019

A closing-night gala salutes the centennials of Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein.

From New York Times May 17, 2018

On the southern side of the street were a mix of larger apartment buildings, and at either end of the block were churches that had recently celebrated their centennials.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser




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