decade
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“Yolanda was very insecure,” Andrea Winter, who had been Rebecca’s close friend for nearly a decade, told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Before incarceration, I was a member of Cincinnati’s city council for a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
This sector has enjoyed phenomenal growth in the last decade and now stands at about $3.5 trillion.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The committee's report referenced a BBC investigation which found the government compared Plan 2 student loan repayments to £30-a-month phone contracts in promotional presentations to teenagers a decade ago.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Isobel racks her brain for the last time she felt under the weather and she can only come up with a head cold she had a decade ago, the winter before she met Marco.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Pazsitzky said the two were “kids” and that people change over the course of multiple decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
After a career spanning decades, with senior corporate roles in fashion, and a period of freelancing, 52-year-old Stacey Duguid decided to find "one last job".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Antidumping and countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber stem from a trade dispute that has been raging for decades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Born in Iran, he grew up in the U.S. and has worked at Novo for more than two decades, mostly in Europe.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
“Four decades later, we were honored as heroes.”
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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