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millennium

[mi-len-ee-uhm] / mɪˈlɛn i əm /
NOUN
1000 years
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONG


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At 2.6 points, his 2018 reelection margin marked Texas’ closest statewide race this millennium.

From Salon Jul. 12, 2026

The mere millionaires saw their wealth grow at an annual rate of 4% adjusted for inflation since the start of the millennium, UBS said.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

Their findings indicate that tectonic stress in the region has reached, and in some locations surpassed, levels seen at any point during the past millennium.

From Science Daily Jun. 18, 2026

Consumer prices have almost exactly doubled in the U.S. since the start of the millennium, so today’s $1 trillion would “only” be worth about $500 billion in 1999 dollars.

From MarketWatch Jun. 5, 2026

The Sumerians put these inventions together, added writing, and in the third millennium B. C. created the first great civilization.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

Some of that carbon becomes woody tissue in the trunk, branches, and roots, where it can remain stored for decades, centuries, or even millennia.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

This provides "very little evidence that the yeasts have been multiplying over millennia," he said, adding that he believed they were "relatively recent colonists of the mummy's body".

From Barron's Jun. 3, 2026

Reid said if several centimetres are lost to fire, then "you're losing decades, centuries, potentially millennia of peatland".

From BBC May 2, 2026

The truth is more mundane: Their makers figured out their creations can’t do it all alone, and require the knowledge and tools honed over millennia by us mere mortals.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 17, 2026

Given time — time not in years but in millennia — life adjusts, and a balance has been reached.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

It would guide scientists in their understanding of our still-unfolding present for generations, perhaps even millenniums, to come.

From Seattle Times Mar. 9, 2024

Purple was labor-intensive, but so widely produced that piles of shells discarded millenniums ago are now geographical features in the region.

From New York Times Mar. 5, 2024

For millenniums, all was still in the forest, until heavy waves stirred up by one of the hurricanes of 2004 scooped away the sand.

From New York Times Feb. 6, 2024

Supported by Annabeth, who is a hothead, and Grover, who is careful, Percy has strong motivations to carry on through life-threatening challenges from mythological creatures that have had millenniums to hone their particular life-threatening skills.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 19, 2023

Collectively, memorable events have caused the ever-quickening pace of change during the past five millenniums, which begin with what we call the ancient world.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson




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