decade

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Mejia, who started driving for Lyft more than a decade ago, said in his early days, he would sometimes make $400 in three hours.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2026

Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black have made a huge success of the Jumanji franchise over the past decade - and there's another film on the way.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

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

For well over a decade, his spies had been infiltrating the United States, burrowing their way into private companies, schools, laboratories, and even government offices.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau