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

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

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

You must see that congruity requires the semi-centenary, and that Sir Walter was a full decennium behind-hand.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

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 Gissing, George

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 Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)