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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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He made the comments before Chinese President Xi Jinping paid him a visit, his first trip to the White House in more than a decade.

From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026

Musk must sell more vehicles as part of a $1 trillion pay package approved by Tesla shareholders in November, which requires him to hit a series of financial and operational milestones over the next decade.

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

And if that’s the case, to jump briefly to the conclusion, we might need to dust off the financial playbook from that dismal decade.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

For a decade now, Devaney had sponsored this conference—called ASF, or the American Securitization Forum, in part because it sounded more dignified than the Association for Subprime Lending.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

"I couldn't have survived showbusiness for four decades without a fight."

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

Hadn’t all the intelligent animals been put to death in the Black Forest decades ago?

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley




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