century
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And all of this has come after a double-overtime Game 1 that instantly became one of the greatest games this century.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026
Starting in the fourth century, pilgrimages were served up by the church as a way for Christians to pay penance for their sins.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2026
"Most likely, the largest scale losses were probably in the 16th to 19th century, which saw the kind of critical collapse phase of Ireland's rainforest," he said.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
More than a century ago, Albert Einstein and Wander Johannes de Haas demonstrated that changing the magnetization of a material could physically cause it to rotate.
From Science Daily • May 24, 2026
It will be a story at the mercy of this new breakneck century.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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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