decade
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His schedule includes a return to the diocese of Chiclayo where he was ordained bishop in 2014 and remained until Francis moved him to the Vatican almost a decade later.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Its effects will “reverberate for the next decade or more.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
More than 3 million returns paid $16.5 billion on the tax when it started a decade earlier, according to a Congressional Research Service report.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
The state’s electorate reaffirmed its support a decade ago, voting down a ballot initiative that would have abolished capital punishment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Over the past decade, like every other Wall Street firm, Bear Stearns had increased the size of the bets it made with every dollar of its capital.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
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But why is the single crystal casting process, which has been around for decades now, still so specialist?
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026
Over the next two decades of his coaching career as he bounced from job to job, the couple moved so often that each of their five children was born in a different state.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Nithya Raman will be the next mayor of Los Angeles, making her the first challenger to defeat an incumbent L.A. mayor in more than two decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
These adjustments have been part of the tax code for decades, protecting households from stumbling too easily into higher tax rates.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026
But he wasn’t ready to abandon clinical practice, certainly not in Haiti, where he had worked for almost two decades.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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