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centuries
noun as in date
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The speaker conjures up centuries of collective sagacity, aligning oneself with an eternal, inarguable good.
But relative to centuries past, America is a marvel of domestic tranquility.
Hand to God Sexual repression has been around for centuries, courtesy of all our favorite religions.
For centuries scientists included God as a part of their explanatory package.
The point of these exercises is to make centuries-old texts relatable; their characters understandable.
The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
It may be fifty or a hundred centuries since men, although they were fully grown up, still went on trying to learn.
And this was all done in the story of Lazarus in such a way that it might surround every grave with illusions for centuries.
Bonaparte took possession of Venice, boasting an independence of fourteen centuries.
There, amid the deep silence of the listening centuries, he would find peace; forgetting himself a moment, he might find—strength.
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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to centuries, such as: age, day, hour, moment, period, and stage.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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