millennium
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The 224-foot stunner makes its first return to England since its creation a millennium ago, still vibrantly alive with scenes from that nation’s 11th-century rebirth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
It nearly happened this millennium as Everton - last relegated in 1951 - stayed up by beating Bournemouth on the final day of the 2022-23 season.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
In 1998 and into the new millennium, “Practical Magic” was not the zeitgeisty film it’s become today.
From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2026
But 2028 is a long way away, about a millennium in political time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Everybody celebrated the turn of the millennium on the wrong date.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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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
But if you are an AI company about to launch an IPO, you say that very soon you will cure cancers, produce music only angels have heard, solve equations that have bedeviled mankind for millennia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
This fossilised hunk of whale bone has lain hidden in the earth on Portmuck Beach for possibly millennia.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
For millennia, people have transformed landscapes, forcing wildlife to adjust to cities, farms, roads, and other human activity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
China had an astronomical tradition millennia old; it invented paper and printing, rockets, clocks, silk, porcelain, and ocean-going navies.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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Like the steady drip-drip-drip of water on stone, which over millenniums reduces a monolith to sand, human contact will have its way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
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
Desert locusts for millenniums have been the scourge of farmers across northern Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 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
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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