centennial
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At a launch event on Tuesday, Sir David said: "When I narrated the first Blue Planet series, it didn't occur to me that I would be narrating a third series in my centennial year."
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
If anything, adversity seems only to have fortified these musicians, which may in part account for Mr. Noseda’s decision in March 2025 to renew his contract with the NSO through 2030-31, its centennial season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass celebrated the paper’s centennial in a written statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The City of Brotherly Love reached a toasty 91 degrees at the hottest part of the day on the centennial July 4, 1876, according to the National Weather Service.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The document, created by the Labor Department to commemorate the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, certainly also served as another propaganda tool for the US government to improve its image on racial relations.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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This season, he has claimed his modernist bona fides — leading Berg and Schoenberg works that aren’t far from their centennials.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2020
Turkcan said millennials were born between 1979 and 1996, and centennials - the next major generation for baseball - began in 1997 and ended between four and eight years ago.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 27, 2019
Turkcan said millennials were born between 1979 and 1996, and centennials — the next major generation for baseball — began in 1997 and ended between four and eight years ago.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2019
A closing-night gala salutes the centennials of Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2018
On the southern side of the street were a mix of larger apartment buildings, and at either end of the block were churches that had recently celebrated their centennials.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
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