millennium
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For the first two decades of the millennium, stocks and bond yields typically rose and fell together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
By the first millennium B.C.E., it ranked among the “five grains,” the staple crops recognized in early Chinese texts.
From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026
Barabak: It’s a long way — about a millennium, as you said — from here to November 2028.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
The vast Theban necropolis, comprising an area of around 10km², was Egypt’s main royal and elite cemetery for half a millennium, from ca.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
More surprising still, the ceramics in the farm’s terra preta indicate that the soil has retained its nutrients for as much as a millennium.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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Chinook salmon have been laying eggs in gravelly nests in the Sacramento River for millennia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The statue has been patinated with a pigment refined from Lapis Lazuli, a semi-precious stone that has been used by artists for millennia.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
"We see continuity here," explains Frank Maixner, director of the Institute for Mummy Studies at Eurac Research: "These yeasts have accompanied Ötzi on his long journey through the millennia."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
At last he gets home to his family with the trophy and, as he does, his story passes into immortality as the text of a civilization that endures for almost three millennia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
During these long millennia people occasionally ate wheat grain, but this was a marginal part of their diet.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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It would guide scientists in their understanding of our still-unfolding present for generations, perhaps even millenniums, to come.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
Purple was labor-intensive, but so widely produced that piles of shells discarded millenniums ago are now geographical features in the region.
From New York Times ● Mar. 5, 2024
Zionism as a concept was once clearly understood: the belief that Jews, who have endured persecution for millenniums, needed refuge and self-determination in the land of their ancestors.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2023
Since the Industrial Revolution, humans have dug up massive amounts of fossil fuels that took millenniums to form underground.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023
Collectively, memorable events have caused the ever-quickening pace of change during the past five millenniums, which begin with what we call the ancient world.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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