millennium
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"Around the millennium, everyone was just told no – you don't take part in any sport, not even recreational," says Dr. Lahti.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
And again, that hope that they were this modern couple, one that we’ve never seen before, and what will they become in this new millennium?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026
A “world state,” which some saw as inevitable around the turn of the millennium, is now an ever more remote possibility.
From MarketWatch • May 31, 2026
Meanwhile, modern Homo sapiens have existed for only 300,000 years, and what are the odds we make it even another millennium?
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
Korea and Japan adopted rice from China in the second millennium B.C., bronze metallurgy by the first millennium B.C., and writing in the first millennium A.D.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing millennium
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Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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