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A trio of beloved bluegrass albums, “The Grass Is Blue,” “Little Sparrow” and “Halos & Horns,” around the turn of the millennium reestablished her as a performer with extensive roots in rural America.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Cash levels at 3.5% have rarely been this low since the turn of the millennium and the allocation to stocks is also a five-year high.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Gregory thinks of how Iceland's first settlers must have felt witnessing such a phenomena more than a millennium ago, a time of mythological rather than scientific explanation.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 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
Fortified towns emerged in the third millennium B.C., with cemeteries whose great variation between unadorned and luxuriously furnished graves bespeaks emerging class differences.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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This fossilised hunk of whale bone has lain hidden in the earth on Portmuck Beach for possibly millennia.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
This fog-shrouded patch of coastal forest in the heart of Yurok Country was tended by the tribe for millennia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Cultivated for millennia, Armenia's famed apricots were known to ancient Romans as the "Armenian apple."
From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
They thereby completely changed the ecology of large parts of Australia within a few short millennia.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Like the steady drip-drip-drip of water on stone, which over millenniums reduces a monolith to sand, human contact will have its way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024
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
After a religious revolt against robots millenniums before the start of the series, the use of intelligent machines was banned.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024
Zionism as a concept was once clearly understood: the belief that Jews, who have endured persecution for millenniums, needed refuge and self-determination in the land of their ancestors.
From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 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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