millennium
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At 2.6 points, his 2018 reelection margin marked Texas’ closest statewide race this millennium.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
The mere millionaires saw their wealth grow at an annual rate of 4% adjusted for inflation since the start of the millennium, UBS said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Audience: Tweens feeling the first pangs of nostalgia at the turn of the millennium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
A root used for more than a millennium may not replace today's treatments yet, but it could help guide the next generation of hair regrowth therapies.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 7, 2026
States organized by or modeled on that Zhou Dynasty of North China spread to South China during the first millennium B.C., culminating in China’s political unification under the Qin Dynasty in 221 B.C.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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This fog-shrouded patch of coastal forest in the heart of Yurok Country was tended by the tribe for millennia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Today’s Western culture isn’t the endpoint of a straight line from the poetry spoken around the Aegean three millennia ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Cultivated for millennia, Armenia's famed apricots were known to ancient Romans as the "Armenian apple."
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
Some of that carbon becomes woody tissue in the trunk, branches, and roots, where it can remain stored for decades, centuries, or even millennia.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
The new linguistic skills that modern Sapiens acquired about seventy millennia ago enabled them to gossip for hours on end.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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The off-white form of the rustic terracotta jar, shattered over millenniums and fastidiously reassembled, is elegantly decorated in rich brown and black designs, including bursts of rosettes and abstract squiggles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025
It would guide scientists in their understanding of our still-unfolding present for generations, perhaps even millenniums, to come.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
Desert locusts for millenniums have been the scourge of farmers across northern Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
Or are you purchasing an item, wrapping, bag or bow that will be used once, then sent off to a landfill where it will sit, undisturbed, for the next several millenniums?
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2023
Collectively, memorable events have caused the ever-quickening pace of change during the past five millenniums, which begin with what we call the ancient world.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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