1776

Cultural  

1. The year in which the Declaration of Independence was written.

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Example Sentences

Thus in 1776, even Thomas Paine, a religious skeptic, drew from the Bible to make his famous case for American Independence.

From The Wall Street Journal

During his travels from 1773 to 1776, Bartram explored regions where this species lives and documented plants and animals that were unfamiliar to early North American settlers.

From Science Daily

Since the signature of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, "no nation on earth has issued coins with the image of a democratically elected leader during the time of their service," one of the committee members, Donald Scarinci, said at the time.

From Barron's

In the labor market, those buyers are employers, and the idea that they can hold more power goes all the way back to Adam Smith, who in 1776 argued that employers could more easily work together to keep wages low than workers could organize to raise them.

From The Wall Street Journal

Highlights include a 1776 edition of the Declaration of Independence, one of only two known life masks of George Washington, a copy of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and the tomahawk Meriwether Lewis carried on his famed expedition.

From The Wall Street Journal