decade

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Unlike earlier this decade, when inflation after the Covid-19 pandemic reached a four-decade high, Macklem said headline inflation was below 2% before the war in Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Beijing has alienated most of the other European partners it courted through the so-called 17+1 initiative a decade ago, notes Dimitar Lilkov, a senior research officer at the Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies.

From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026

There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, as long as you have both discussed the financial and lifestyle repercussions of retiring nearly a decade earlier than your wife.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 17, 2026

A decade after Justin Timberlake stepped out from NSYNC, JB blatantly ripped JT’s “Like I Love You” for this heavy-breathing flirtation.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

The Tribune’s editor, Horace Greeley, had been a household name for about a decade, and was associated with the slogan “Go West, young man.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock