decade
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According to the complaint, Prabhakar had taught the story for nearly a decade without incident and used it in a unit on unsympathetic and unreliable narrators alongside works by Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2026
The previous live-action Spider-Man movie, 2021’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” is the second-highest-grossing Hollywood film of the decade so far, with $1.91 billion worldwide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Several northern European elections over the past decade have demonstrated these tensions.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
To illustrate my point, consider the three occasions over the last decade when I devoted a column to taking issue with a chorus of voices calling for Cook to step down.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 2, 2026
Everyone concerned apparently assumed they were being paid insurance premiums to take basically the same sort of risk they had been taking for nearly a decade.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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North Dakota Workforce Safety & Insurance, a public agency that provides and administers the benefits, says changes over the past few decades have helped it recover from a deficit and build a $1.2 billion surplus.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
As Americans consume more protein than ever and older adults are increasingly advised to raise their intake, Lamming and his colleague reviewed decades of evidence to better understand the relationship between protein, metabolism, and aging.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
And the EPA has relied on these findings for decades, including during the first Trump administration and other Republican administrations.
From Slate ● Aug. 2, 2026
For decades, the political calendar was unchanged and, mostly, unchallenged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
In the decades that followed, Colored people strove to educate themselves— organizing, creating self-help groups, running for office, fighting to change laws, founding schools, and so on.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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