annus mirabilis
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Consider just some of the albums released during this annus mirabilis: “Like a Prayer.”
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2023
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
That year, 1846, was to be an annus mirabilis, for a storm, fiercer than the wildest within living memory, wrought havoc among the shipping in St. John's Harbour, and overwhelmed many substantial buildings inland.
From The Story of Newfoundland by Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of
