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century

[sen-chuh-ree] / ˈsɛn tʃə ri /
ADJECTIVE
of one hundred years
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With its three interconnected stories that follow queer men through nearly a century of Spanish history, “La Bola Negra” has an epic feel and emotional payoff that could carry it far.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026

It is impossible, in the 21st century, to identify a single overriding interest or value that ought alone to govern social life, whether freedom, virtue, equality or efficiency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The research changes the understanding of a disease that has affected white button mushroom production for more than a century.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Matt Renshaw scored an epic first Test century in more than nine years to put Australia in control of the first Test in their highly anticipated series against South Africa.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

He’d held the US economy in his hand for the last half century.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

After centuries thriving in the Po basin, producers are now trying dry-seeding, which works without continuous flooding.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

The industrialists of the 19th and 20th centuries made their fortunes on new markets like oil, steel and railroads.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

One specifically tragic element of Israeli-Palestinian conflict has obscured centuries of coexistence between Jews and Muslims in communities across dozens of countries that included a shared culinary language.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

City of Lincoln Council said it believed the hospital remained in use for about five centuries.

From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026

All around are stores selling gold filigree jewelry and embroidered cloths in buildings where Jewish artisans must have labored centuries ago.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar




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