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Which decade is often associated with flappers, jazz, and speakeasies?

decade

[dek-eyd, duh-keyd] / ˈdɛk eɪd, dəˈkeɪd /


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The city must add 11,760 residential units by the end of the decade to meet state housing mandates.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2026

Christopher Dring, editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Game Business, said the military sci-fi shooter was once Xbox's "crown jewel" but that hadn't been the case "for more than a decade".

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

The debt owed by U.S. apartment landlords over the next decade.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

GAE was first developed in Japan a little more than a decade ago and has since attracted increasing attention around the world.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 2026

For more than a decade, Elisha Kent Kane had managed to remain one of Philadelphia’s most eligible bachelors.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

For decades, Orange County, New York, was a hotbed of illegal dumping, leading to toxins in the soil and water.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2026

Two decades later, he reprises that role in “Primetime,” the A24 movie about the Dateline reality series “To Catch a Predator.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 22, 2026

Inside the eruption zone, two decades follow of a grey landscape.

From Science Daily Sep. 22, 2026

Tad Devine, who served as a top strategist for mainstream Democrats for decades before joining Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 presidential bid, knows the mechanisms inside and out.

From Salon Sep. 22, 2026

In fact, it would not be until a few decades later that such caves would be discovered in Europe.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood




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