twenty-first century
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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
Hollywood movies and American recording artists are still major players, but in the twenty-first century, diversity has returned to the global stage.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
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
This last sends me drifting off in a sci-fi direction: And as the time thieves headed back to the year 3420, loaded with weekends and days off looted from the twenty-first century .
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
