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era

[eer-uh, er-uh] / ˈɪər ə, ˈɛr ə /


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Or has the era of fragile peace officially ended, giving birth to an era of war?

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 24, 2026

After the labor battles of the Vietnam War era, Valdez took El Teatro Campesino’s mission nationwide.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 24, 2026

It’s a new era at Verizon Communications, and the company is upping its financial forecasts as it makes progress under the current leadership team.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

Douglass may not have held a role as a judge, legislator, or even enfranchised citizen, yet he nonetheless played a pivotal role in shaping the nation’s understanding of equal citizenship in the Civil War era.

From Slate Jul. 24, 2026

It was the essential precondition for the new era of intellectual revolution, for it is a necessary concept which any society that saw itself as improving knowledge would have to develop.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

These periods span parts of the Stone Age and early metalworking eras, thousands of years before modern civilization.

From Science Daily Jul. 5, 2026

The second section, "All the Somebody People" focuses on the musician onstage and in the studio across four defining eras; Ziggy Stardust, the Berlin years, Let's Dance, and Blackstar.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

It is filled with Americana and features what he calls the “Patriot’s Bar,” a sky-high watering hole adorned with flags from the Revolutionary and Civil war eras.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

But if these rumbling premonitions have remained true across multiple eras of an ever-evolving media landscape, have we really learned anything?

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

Others divide the Precambrian into two eras, the very ancient Archean and the more recent Proterozoic.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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