decade

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This is Metcalf’s third win in less than a decade, and was not a surprise as she has inherited “Helen Hayes’ mantle of First Lady of the American Theater,” according to McNulty.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

For more than a decade, Walker had worked at the Gates Foundation and then the billionaire’s private office.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

But in the last decade, he says, both the police and Trading Standards - a body enforcing consumer protection laws - have been squeezed.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026

Those higher prices have followed disruptions from tariffs last year, among other price shocks over this decade, that have prompted companies to more closely manage their production footprints and their costs.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 7, 2026

For nearly a decade, Jefferson and Washington had corresponded about making navigation improvements in the Potomac on the presumption that it afforded a direct link between the vast American interior and the Chesapeake Bay.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis