century
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Both paintings had been a part of the hotel for more than a century.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
The last El Nino cycle in 2023-2024 brought southern Africa's worst drought in more than a century, leaving 61 million people in need of assistance, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
Though the sequels became progressively worse, each one has a handful of great situational gags — diamonds sparkling through manure recalling the finest, silliest bits in classic spoof films from the late 20th century.
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2026
Unassuming on its surface, that negative is at once a sophisticated industrial product and the source of nearly a century of dreams, joy, terror, fantasy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Maybe five thousand dollars wasn’t much money in the twenty-second century, but in 1999, it was a fortune.
From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Vocabulary lists containing century
Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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"Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson
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