decennium
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The Apple of 2010, at the end of its decennium mirabilis, had a record of hardware innovation no other electronics firm could match.
From New York Times ● May 1, 2022
Every decennium is regularly worse than that which precedes it, until the mind is perfectly confounded by the Pelion upon Ossa which must overwhelm the last term of the twenty-five.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
But with intellectual matters it is totally different; they change from century to century, nay, from decennium to decennium.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
In the last but one decennium of the sixteenth century, the first dramatists arose who pursued fixed literary tendencies.
From Shakspere and Montaigne by Jacob Feis
Most of the papers of this decennium deal with vertebrate morphology, and are more or less connected with his former researches, but in one respect, at least, he broke quite fresh ground.
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley
During the decennia which immediately followed, Jewish history was practically absorbed in vain attempts to restore the old Hasmonaean kingdom.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
