twenty-first century
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"This Government's changes will bring weddings law into the twenty-first century."
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
And so he gives us what he calls “a twenty-first century version of ‘The Conscience of a Conservative.’”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
"We find that rapid ocean warming, at approximately triple the historical rate, is likely committed over the twenty-first century, with widespread increases in ice-shelf melting, including in regions crucial for ice-sheet stability," the authors write.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2023
For home cooks baking up pecan pie well into the twenty-first century, Karo is still pretty much the only brand you can buy in grocery stores: It has kept that corporate hold.
From Slate ● Nov. 24, 2022
For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
