annus mirabilis
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I am supposed to be having my annus mirabilis now.
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
This year has not been an annus mirabilis for China’s Huawei Technologies Ltd, the world’s largest supplier of telecommunications network equipment and second-biggest maker of smartphones.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 19, 2018
The year being rewarded, 1979, had been the Chic Organisation’s annus mirabilis.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2017
Wordsworth's bolt was practically shot; Sir Walter was ending his glorious career; Shelley and Byron and Keats were dead, and the annus mirabilis of Coleridge was long gone by.
From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Andrew Lang
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