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decade

[dek-eyd, duh-keyd] / ˈdɛk eɪd, dəˈkeɪd /


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That America needed a shock to its system should have been obvious by the middle of the last decade.

From The Wall Street Journal

In the world of insurance, for instance, the same risk models have been used for decades, but they don’t capture the temporal and high-dimensional resolution needed for this market.

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Why did East Asia’s economy grow so rapidly in recent decades and Africa’s so slowly?

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Smithfield Foods SFD 2.24%increase; green up pointing triangle plans to build a large hog slaughterhouse in South Dakota, marking the first new facility built by America’s top pork producer in decades.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Swiss are the heaviest rail users in Europe in terms of kilometres travelled per person, but accidents have fallen in recent decades even as use grows, according to government statistics.

From Barron's