annus mirabilis

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Consider just some of the albums released during this annus mirabilis: “Like a Prayer.”

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2023

There was a plague, so Isaac Newton went home, and for him it was an annus mirabilis, which in Latin is a “year of miracles.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 20, 2020

The annus mirabilis, Warner adds, was 1743, when one person’s average annual consumption hit 2.2 gallons.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 2, 2019

But the study has limitations, not least that the team defined an actor’s annus mirabilis by the number of acting credits.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2019

The year 1856 will always be remembered as the annus mirabilis in the history of Russia.

From The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Raisin, Jacob S.