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

In the last but one decennium of the sixteenth century, the first dramatists arose who pursued fixed literary tendencies.

From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob

He was occupied actively with teaching, but the dominant feature of the decennium was his assumption of the Darwinian doctrines.

From Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work by Mitchell, P. Chalmers (Peter Chalmers)

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 Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

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