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time period

NOUN
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Writer O’Sullivan mines her own teenage past for “Mouse,” and the film is too perfectly specific to that time period to be made by anyone who didn’t live it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

In Scotland there has been a decrease of 23% in the same time period.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

He vowed to work with "global partners" to help those countries repay "over a longer time period and with better rates".

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Anthropic achieved a small operating profit in the second quarter, while OpenAI’s operating losses deepened over the same time period, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

He’s surrounded by teenagers whose clothing, hairstyles, and dance moves all indicate that the time period is the late 1980s.*

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline


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