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millennium

[mi-len-ee-uhm] / mɪˈlɛn i əm /
NOUN
1000 years
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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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

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

A trio of beloved bluegrass albums, “The Grass Is Blue,” “Little Sparrow” and “Halos & Horns,” around the turn of the millennium reestablished her as a performer with extensive roots in rural America.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Gregory thinks of how Iceland's first settlers must have felt witnessing such a phenomena more than a millennium ago, a time of mythological rather than scientific explanation.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

It is also not restricted to our time: Sumerian cylinder seals from the third millennium b.c. and Taoist flags in prerevolutionary China displayed constellations.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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

For millennia, people have transformed landscapes, forcing wildlife to adjust to cities, farms, roads, and other human activity.

From Science Daily Aug. 28, 2026

Kings, presidents and military academies have wrestled with versions of that question for millennia.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

This fog-shrouded patch of coastal forest in the heart of Yurok Country was tended by the tribe for millennia.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

He explains the branches of marine evolution and the sequences of the geologic periods; on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The off-white form of the rustic terracotta jar, shattered over millenniums and fastidiously reassembled, is elegantly decorated in rich brown and black designs, including bursts of rosettes and abstract squiggles.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2025

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

Cody, 41, is a millennial at the forefront of an art form harking back millenniums — at once building on tradition and joyously venturing beyond it.

From New York Times Apr. 18, 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

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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