decem
Americanadjective
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That December, Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras gathered in Bonn and, under the watchful eye of the UN, began the process that might someday end over twenty years of unhappiness in their watan.
From Literature
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Another inscription narrates— "Gregorius primus concessit omnibus et singulis visitantibus ecclesiam istam sanctorum Cosm� et Damiani mille annos de indulgentia, et in die stationis ejusdem ecclesi� idem Gregorius concessit decem millia annorum de indulgentia."
From Project Gutenberg
Neronem et Antichristum prius esse venturos: Neronem in occidentali plaga regibus subactis decem, imperaturum, persecutionem autem ab eo hactenus exercendam ut idola gentium coli cogat.”—Dial. ii.
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Parturitio aliquando decem vel duodecim annos post ultimos menses evenit.
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Kraft-Ebing enumerat decem casus congenitos in maribus, et duos in feminis.
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