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

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)

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

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

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)