decade
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It was nearly a half decade ago that Lincoln Riley, dressed in a slick blue suit and glossy cardinal tie, stood atop the Coliseum’s rooftop deck, grinning as he gazed out across the field below.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
These details emerged more than a decade later in a court hearing reviewing her case, when a new team of lawyers claimed ineffective assistance of counsel, a claim that was denied by the judge.
From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026
For a decade, Texas lawyer Jordan Campbell lived the life of a business litigator, handling a portfolio filled with contract and antitrust disputes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
But most of the cases involve immigrants like Bhengura who were on the pathway to U.S. citizenship when they voted in elections over the past decade.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
For nearly a decade, Jefferson and Washington had corresponded about making navigation improvements in the Potomac on the presumption that it afforded a direct link between the vast American interior and the Chesapeake Bay.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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Tebow, a Heisman Trophy winner and former NFL quarterback, has spent nearly two decades as one of America’s most recognizable Christian athletes.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
The River Arts District, a string of old warehouses along the French Broad River that artists turned into studios and galleries over decades, took some of the worst of the flooding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
That vision may still be decades away, but researchers in the United States and Brazil are already examining whether fungi could make space agriculture more practical.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Leo XIV was born in the US city of Chicago but lived in Peru for more than two decades, where he was a missionary and bishop in Chiclayo.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
It looked as though no one had used it in decades.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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