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decade

[dek-eyd, duh-keyd] / ˈdɛk eɪd, dəˈkeɪd /


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“We are not the Walmart of a decade ago.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

So customers with Cox service have been unable to watch most of the team’s regular season baseball games for more than a decade.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

But namely, this sequence of dino-terror suggests that “Jurassic World” might actually provide audiences something they’d sorely lack for the next decade: fun.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

After suffering a stroke nearly a decade ago, she has relied on Wakefield Council's trips and falls service Carelink to help her if she gets into difficulty.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

However, over the following decade more settlers poured over the Appalachians.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

For decades the man's identity remained a mystery.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

U.S. plants are running at a pace not seen in decades, yet the increased productivity still isn’t enough to compensate for the supplies that have been lost.

From MarketWatch Aug. 20, 2026

Using the new tools, the team obtained an updated melting temperature that matched computer simulations almost perfectly, resolving a disagreement that had persisted for roughly two decades.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

The share of corporate profits returned to investors one way or another has been pretty steady over many decades.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The dismal name came from the bleak opportunities workers faced in the region, where iron, coal, and steel companies had busted unions for two decades.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell




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