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

After that three pontifical briefs were obtained, each one ad decennium, empowering them to graduate students from the courses of philosophy and theology.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Blair, Emma Helen

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

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

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)