historic
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The government has managed to cut legal immigration sharply in the past two years, but illegal crossings remain close to historic levels.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
But these are just the latest moves in a sustained rise in yields that has been under way since long-term interest rates bottomed at historic lows in 2020, during the worst of the Covid pandemic.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
The price of a pound of ground beef has reached a historic high of $6.89, Bureau of Labor Statistics data show, meaning throwing burgers on the grill will cost nearly 20% more than in 2025.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
The fruit of that sacrifice was the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965.
From Slate • May 22, 2026
When we think of major overseas population movements, we tend to focus on those since Columbus’s discovery of the Americas, and on the resulting replacements of non-Europeans by Europeans within historic times.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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