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Which decade is often associated with flappers, jazz, and speakeasies?

decade

[dek-ayd, duh-kayd] / ˈdɛk eɪd, dəˈkeɪd /


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Mr. Skoglund spent a decade working on bison policy for an environmental organization before concluding that conservation “has to happen through how we produce things and how we consume things.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Celebrate Slate’s first decade: Slate began as one of the first online-only news publications.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

Not 4% per year: In total, over the entire decade — and that’s before taxes and fees.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

For more than a decade, Paramount has been the smallest of the major media companies, owning CBS, Comedy Central, BET, Nickelodeon and the Melrose Avenue studio.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

However, demand was fully re-established in the decade 1600-1609, and not just for the new more complex commentaries such as that of Clavius, published in fat quartos, but also for cheap octavo editions.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The brothers behind suburban New York tire retailer Mavis spent decades gobbling up smaller rivals culminating in their biggest deal, the acquisition of the best-known name in repairs: Midas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Det Supt Eleanor Welsh, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "These women have waited three or four decades for these verdicts and bravely relived their ordeals in a bid to secure justice."

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

In another two decades, we could all be looking back at 2026 for clues.

From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026

The report partly attributed the shift to Washington's "almost complete absence" from the region in the two decades after the 2003 Iraq War.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

At the end of his trial four decades earlier, he had told reporters he intended to live a fairly quiet life from that point on—quiet, at least, in comparison to the tumultuous Pentagon Papers years.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin




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