decade

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Beijing has alienated most of the other European partners it courted through the so-called 17+1 initiative a decade ago, notes Dimitar Lilkov, a senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, as long as you have both discussed the financial and lifestyle repercussions of retiring nearly a decade earlier than your wife.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black have made a huge success of the Jumanji franchise over the past decade - and there's another film on the way.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

By staying in the labor force during the decade when children are young, these women build experience, earnings growth and retirement funds that set their families apart financially.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

In the meantime the clock was ticking as we drew closer and closer to the end of the decade in which President Kennedy had promised we would put a man on the moon.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson