millennium
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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
As the new millennium approached, digital technology once again helped give the song renewed life.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
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
Alphabets apparently arose only once in human history: among speakers of Semitic languages, in the area from modern Syria to the Sinai, during the second millennium B.C.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing millennium
May the 4th Be With You: Star Wars Words
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Perfect Ten: Dec, Cent, Mille
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