annus mirabilis

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Then the coronavirus hit and Raphael’s annus mirabilis turned into the world’s annus horribilis.

From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2020

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

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

Pope was born on May 21st, 1688—the annus mirabilis which introduced a new political era in England, and was fatal to the hopes of ardent Catholics.

From Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series by Stephen, Leslie, Sir