decade
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The Justice Department was preparing to wage a legal battle more than a decade in the making against the world’s largest concert promoter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
In my fifth decade, I’d found a web-learning technique that was workable and empowering.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
The union representing workers at South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor said on Monday it had resumed wage talks with management after staging its first full-day strike in a decade.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
She ended the decade on Norman Lear’s “One Day at a Time,” starring as Francine Webster opposite Bonnie Franklin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Isobel racks her brain for the last time she felt under the weather and she can only come up with a head cold she had a decade ago, the winter before she met Marco.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
The Darfur arms embargo, in place for over two decades, is set to expire on September 12, 2026 if a new agreement is not reached.
From Barron's ● Aug. 24, 2026
Graduate students in particular are facing the strictest limits on federal student loans in decades.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
"El Niño is adding heat to the system, but it is doing so on top of decades of human-driven warming," she added.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
The material exposed at the Wedge surf spot in Newport Beach by powerful swells is believed to be part of an old jetty that was constructed decades ago.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
“In those days, weeks, months, years, now decades since 1980, Mount St. Helens has become the master teacher—an ideal lab for volcano studies,” said Carolyn Driedger.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
Vocabulary lists containing decade
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