decennium

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The Apple of 2010, at the end of its decennium mirabilis, had a record of hardware innovation no other electronics firm could match.

From New York Times • May 1, 2022

Every decennium is regularly worse than that which precedes it, until the mind is perfectly confounded by the Pelion upon Ossa which must overwhelm the last term of the twenty-five.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

Praestantissimum hunc virum, Cum a provincia Bengala, Ubi judicis integerrimi munus Per decennium obierat, Reditum in patriam meditaretur, Ingruentis morbi vis oppressit, X. Kal.

From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis

Incipiendum esse primum decennium a die constitutionis summi Pontificis Sixti V. quae incipit "Romanus Pontifex".

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 by Various

The second decennium still found him employed chiefly in research, vertebrate and extinct forms absorbing most of his attention.

From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by Mitchell, P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers)