millennium
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A “world state,” which some saw as inevitable around the turn of the millennium, is now an ever more remote possibility.
From MarketWatch • May 31, 2026
Meanwhile, modern Homo sapiens have existed for only 300,000 years, and what are the odds we make it even another millennium?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Trees are plentiful here, but they might not live a millennium.
From Los Angeles Times • May 10, 2026
Kyziridis took that tumble in front of where the Hearts fans were having kittens, while pointing at Maswanhise as if guilty of the crime of the millennium.
From BBC • May 9, 2026
Between 10,000 and 9000 B.C. the people living there may already have been residing year-round in villages, but they were still hunter-gatherers; crop cultivation began only in the succeeding millennium.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing millennium
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Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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