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

Most of the papers of this decennium deal with vertebrate morphology, and are more or less connected with his former researches, but in one respect, at least, he broke quite fresh ground.

From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Huxley, Thomas Henry

A review of the Vital Statistics of Cleveland during the last decennium.

From Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century by Handerson, Henry Ebenezer

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)

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)