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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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Banks recently underwent just the kind of expense shock Slok described, after the COVID-19 pandemic, when interest rates suddenly climbed after a decade near zero.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Defections to the South hit a peak of more than 2,900 in 2009 and stayed well above 1,000 per year for the next decade.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Rapid U.S. shale growth had pushed oil prices down and stymied Canadian oil sands’ growth plans over the past decade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Another local resident, Tristan Dhalla, said he had noticed the pollution ever since he moved to the area five years ago, and neighbours had even claimed the problem went back as far as a decade.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

During the decade following Redemption, the convict population grew ten times faster than the general population: “Prisoners became younger and blacker, and the length of their sentences soared.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Guggenheim has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in bond deals done by Clarus’s co-founders over the course of more than two decades, according to financial reports by Delaware Life and Guggenheim.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

Arrivals have fluctuated over the decades, but plunged sharply during the Covid pandemic when many nations shut their borders.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The state of the social care system in England is a topic that's made Andy Burnham angry for decades.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The yields on 10-year and 30-year Treasurys touched their highest levels in decades.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 27, 2026

In the seven decades since the American Revolution, these rolling hills had produced social revolutions by the dozens.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock




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