millennium
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A leading brand at the turn of the millennium, Marc Jacobs later found itself losing steam and began a wave of strategic changes in a bid to find a viable business model.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Wages had roughly kept up with house prices until they were introduced around the start of the millennium.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
The version found in the National Museum appears to have been used for teaching and includes rulers from the late 3rd millennium BC.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
Shipley heard “Eternal Life” on a burned CD of femme-folk artists that was making the industry rounds at the turn of the millennium while he was putting together his “Wayfaring Strangers” lineup.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026
Our archaeologist might therefore look at the Americas and conclude that Africans, despite their apparently enormous head start, would have been overtaken by the earliest Americans within at most a millennium.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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