decade
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Michael Fredericson, a sports medicine doctor at Stanford, says the performance of masters athletes declines roughly 5% to 6% a decade.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
The Trump administration allocated $23 million and will fund up to 50 clinics to combat the Ebola outbreak, which is on track to be the worst in a decade.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
IBM’s goal is to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer by the end of the decade.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
More than a decade on, a BBC Disclosure investigation uncovered omissions from the prophet's account of what happened at the hotel where Charmain died.
From BBC • May 22, 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
Vocabulary lists containing decade
Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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