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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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Within a decade, scientists were dreaming about machines that would be smarter than us at everything, including the design of machines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

In fact, when Banner was chief executive of the Cleveland Browns more than a decade ago, he reached an agreement with the 49ers to trade draft picks for Harbaugh, then San Francisco’s coach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

That global deal in 2022 - the Global Biodiversity Framework - contained 24 targets including putting 30% of the world's land and seas into protection by the end of the decade.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

So what’s making “GTA 6” the most hotly anticipated game of the year — if not the past decade?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2026

The Tribune’s editor, Horace Greeley, had been a household name for about a decade, and was associated with the slogan “Go West, young man.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

This year, Derry marked four decades of the festival with events inspired by folklore, mythology and the traditions of Samhain, the ancient Celtic festival from which Halloween has its roots.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

But she says the city’s problems are decades in the making.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Now I might rewatch it for the first time in decades and expect to be horrified for entirely different reasons.

From Salon ● Oct. 31, 2026

"These Neanderthals returned to the same place to lay their dead to rest. Some were deposited before the earlier body had fully decomposed, so this was happening within years or decades."

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

Farmer suspected the root cause of this growing problem stemmed from decades back—long before Peru adopted the model WHO program in 1991—when drug-resistant strains were spawned by inadequately financed and unsupervised treatment.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French


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