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Which decade is often associated with flappers, jazz, and speakeasies?

decade

[dek-ayd, duh-kayd] / ˈdɛk eɪd, dəˈkeɪd /


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Wong sprang to prominence during widespread protests more than a decade ago, and was later involved in the huge pro-democracy rallies in 2019 that triggered the imposition of the national security law.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Three times in the past decade the Supreme Court has vindicated religious schools excluded from state programs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

The paper notes that MPs were warned by the home secretary that some migrants would still face "retrospective rule changes to make them wait a decade" before granting them leave to remain, the paper reports.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

What you and Kornacki were doing at the Big Board really became a thing over the last decade or so.

From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026

For more than a decade following Penkovsky's arrest, Moscow had been a virtual no-go zone for CIA operations.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Born and raised in Chicago, Leo became a Peruvian citizen in 2015 after living in the country for almost two decades.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

To her, the word rehabilitation seems painfully inadequate: "How can a life built over decades be uprooted and planted somewhere else?" she asks.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

"For decades, we have treated diabetes by telling the body how to manage glucose. We are now showing that we can take control of glucose directly, using electronics rather than drugs," he says.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

The author traces the roots of the problem to the early decades of the 20th century, with psychiatry’s flailing, if well-meaning, efforts to address mental illness via cures that included lobotomies and insulin comas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

A few decades before, there were truly noxious episodes known as “the Great Stinks.”

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day


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