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
But with intellectual matters it is totally different; they change from century to century, nay, from decennium to decennium.
From Popular scientific lectures by Ernst Mach
The problem with the minimum wage was caused before 1980, and policy makers wanting a solution in 2002 will rather look at the last decennium rather than to the 1950-1975 period.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus
A similar remark might be made concerning the reference to the poet's old age "which dulleth him in his spirit," in the "Complaint of Venus," generally ascribed to the last decennium of Chaucer's life.
From Chaucer by Sir Adolphus William Ward
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 Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
During the decennia which immediately followed, Jewish history was practically absorbed in vain attempts to restore the old Hasmonaean kingdom.
From Prolegomena by Julius Wellhausen
