millennial

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We lack frames of reference in our everyday lives for thinking about nuclear waste’s multimillennial timescales of radioactive hazard.

From Scientific American • Aug. 13, 2021

“Yes, you can laugh about them being spineless and brainless with no visible means of support, but you’ve got to admit, these multimillennial survivors are doing something right,” Gershwin writes.

From Washington Post • Jul. 1, 2013

Mr. Easterly’s explanation for the multimillennial gap in  technology is likely more unsettling, since it implies greater challenges for future development.

From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2010

The more hazardous and rewarding task is to pursue Wilder's deeper intention of making Grover's Corners a metaphor, a sort of way station in the multimillennial aspiration and continuity of the human race.

From Time Magazine Archive