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decennium

[dih-sen-ee-uhm] / dɪˈsɛn i əm /


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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

The principal poems composed in the last decennium of the eighteenth century . . . adhered still more to classic tradition.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Still as late as in the last decennium of the last century, Capt.

From The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various

A review of the Vital Statistics of Cleveland during the last decennium.

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Henry Ebenezer Handerson

And no marriage, except where both, for the whole decennium, have earned their living by work that the State recognizes.'

From The Odd Women by George Gissing

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




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