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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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Colette Kress, who has been the company’s chief financial officer for more than a decade, has been tapped to serve as interim CEO while the company looks for a permanent replacement.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 13, 2026

My friend Dov Seidman, who has been making this argument for more than a decade, was at our WSJ Board of Directors Council Summit this week, and shared the following insight:

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

“My son worked for us and he totally got what we did. We appealed to customers in the decade of the ‘80s, the people that were between 25 and 45 in the ’90s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026

Pope Leo XIV returns Friday to his cherished Chiclayo, the Peruvian city where he served for nearly a decade as bishop, and where locals and old friends eagerly await him.

From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026

During more than a decade of marriage, Mary Greeley was frequently pregnant, bore seven children, and suffered multiple miscarriages.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

In fact, the researchers report, value cumulatively underperformed growth stocks from the end of 1984 through year-end 2024, a stretch of four decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026

By "carving out" this tiny atomic cluster and treating it like a separate molecule, Martirez can use powerful computational methods that chemists have spent decades refining.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026

Texas, of all places, had elected a Democratic senator and governor for the first time in three decades, including its first Latina governor, Gina Hinojosa.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2026

Over the last three decades, the game has sold hundreds of millions of copies while DMA Design became Rockstar North, moving to Edinburgh, and employing more than 1,000 people.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2026

A few decades before, there were truly noxious episodes known as “the Great Stinks.”

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day


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