millennium
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And with the new millennium fast approaching, the consumer needed Jacobs’ brand of sartorial insouciance.
From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026
He added: "We should be proud to sit here as embodiments of the hereditary principle dating back a millennium."
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
At the turn of the millennium, private investments in technology soared and crashed alongside stocks, wiping out investors who jumped on the bandwagon at the wrong time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
It’s just one of those things that the robots will be chuckling about to themselves for the next millennium.
From Slate • Feb. 28, 2026
Water-wheels were known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but were far from common; thanks to an early medieval proto-industrial Revolution, they quickly became widespread around the end of the first millennium CE.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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