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millennium

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


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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

As the country welcomed the new millennium, ties to Europe had faded, especially as a new crop of immigrant Canadians arrived from Asia and the Caribbean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

The incredible thing is that, for the first few hundred years of the first millennium ad, before a universal notation system emerged, all of the chant that monks and nuns sang was memorised.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

"We believe that Europe can awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was here millennia ago," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Chinook salmon have been laying eggs in gravelly nests in the Sacramento River for millennia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Park explains: "Breathing techniques have accompanied humanity for millennia across various religions and cultures. With this study, we provide scientific proof that it is a reliable and targeted method capable of controlling our decisions."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Language, on the other hand, dates back only about a hundred millennia, a shorthand humans created to process and relay concepts great and small.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The rise of farming was a very gradual affair spread over centuries and millennia.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

After a religious revolt against robots millenniums before the start of the series, the use of intelligent machines was banned.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

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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