decade

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While “The Long Run’s” subtitle suggests a portrait of “The Decade That Made the Marathon Cool,” that decade—the 1970s—is prefaced by more than 100 pages of history.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

She is the author of “Bad Feminist,” “Hunger” and “Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People’s Business,” among other works, and the founder of the Audacious Book Club.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026

Decade by decade, age by age, the world flip flops between the two.

From Barron's • Jan. 5, 2026

"We are now well into the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, but when doing restoration, we have to account for new pathways of species interacting in the food web."

From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 2024

Decade by decade, she watched Rosa Parks’s fame grow as the person who had ignited the movement by refusing to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

From "Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice" by Phillip Hoose