decennium

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The Apple of 2010, at the end of its decennium mirabilis, had a record of hardware innovation no other electronics firm could match.

From New York Times • May 1, 2022

Incipiendum esse primum decennium a die constitutionis summi Pontificis Sixti V. quae incipit "Romanus Pontifex".

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, June 1865 by Various

The principal poems composed in the last decennium of the eighteenth century . . . adhered still more to classic tradition.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

Every decennium is regularly worse than that which precedes it, until the mind is perfectly confounded by the Pelion upon Ossa which must overwhelm the last term of the twenty-five.

From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)

In England, it is true that the largest cities show during the last decennium a certain slackening in the pace of growth.

From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)