century
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Castro, 94, stepped down as Cuban Communist Party leader in 2021, ending his family's more than half a century in power.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
Translations are necessarily interpretations, and what these men and women saw in Kafka call up signal themes of the 20th century.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
He stayed in a West Cliff guest house, gazing, as everyone must do, across the harbor where the remains of the 13th century Whitby Abbey dominate the East Cliff.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
Prospectors learned more than a century ago that there were riches buried under Texas, in the form of abundant oil and gas supplies.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
A half century later, Picasso admitted this: “If you look at the ears of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, you’ll recognize the ears of those sculptures!”
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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