millennium
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He added: "We should be proud to sit here as embodiments of the hereditary principle dating back a millennium."
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
In the new millennium, American families’ entertainment options have become more diverse than ever—and even more fragmented.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
Though “The Rules of Attraction” failed to have a broader cultural impact, it became a minor commercial success and a brief staple of early millennium gay culture, achieving the cult status it was destined for.
From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026
Then something pretty extraordinary happened: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sent a letter to Ronald Reagan proposing they “enter the third millennium without nuclear weapons.”
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2026
The book of Nature had waited more than a millennium for a reader.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing millennium
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