annus mirabilis
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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
Two thousand and six was something of an annus mirabilis for Morgan.
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 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 1801, the first of the nineteenth century, was annus mirabilis in the industrial history of mankind.
From Twentieth Century Inventions A Forecast by Sutherland, George
