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century

[sen-chuh-ree] / ˈsɛn tʃə ri /
ADJECTIVE
of one hundred years
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"Our nations are strategically aligned on all of the key issues that will define the new century -- all the great challenges that are before us now in the modern era," he said.

From Barron's • May 24, 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

Hill was seated before stacks of the newly published book in which she’d chronicled her part in the state’s trial of the century.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 24, 2026

This outbreak is the 17th to have emerged in DR Congo since Ebola was discovered half a century ago in 1976.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Because from here, we can look down through the last century and see the fallout of a single theory: the Rich American commissioning a Consummate Professional to steal a Great Painting.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day




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