decade
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Investors are seeing few signs of a pullback like the one during the turn of the century crash that rocked tech markets for a decade.
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
"The costs in Jersey, especially with accommodation and food, has sky rocketed in the past decade and people are struggling to make ends meet," she said.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
At Harvard it jumped from 3% to 21% in a decade, according to The Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Trump had claimed before heading to China for the first time in nearly a decade that Xi would give him a "big, fat hug".
From Barron's • May 14, 2026
But today is the start of a new year, and a new decade.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Vocabulary lists containing decade
Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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