decade
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While growth is unlikely to match the extraordinary pace of the past decade, expectations have already come down significantly.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
Start said he had no concerns about the controversies and thought Platner had changed, noting that some of the online posts were from more than a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
“Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You” alchemized those months of research, plus a decade of drafts, residencies at the Headland Center for the Arts and Hedgebrook, as well as notebooks upon notebooks.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
A college graduate with zero debt may be able to start funding retirement accounts instead of paying loan servicers $1,000 monthly for a decade.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
But a decade had passed, and Darwin had never published the promised book on the genesis of “variability in organic beings.”
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Vocabulary lists containing decade
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