decade

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Unlike earlier this decade, when inflation after the Covid-19 pandemic reached a four-decade high, Macklem said headline inflation was below 2% before the war in Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Beijing has alienated most of the other European partners it courted through the so-called 17+1 initiative a decade ago, notes Dimitar Lilkov, a senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

A decade after that career highlight, Cheap Trick has no intention of hanging up the guitars or putting down the mic.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026

In today’s money, those caps would be worth $3,000 a month for an individual and $6,000 for a couple within a decade, and just $1,900 and $3,800, respectively, in 30 years.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 16, 2026

Isobel racks her brain for the last time she felt under the weather and she can only come up with a head cold she had a decade ago, the winter before she met Marco.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern