half-decade

• a word derived from decade.
  decade

  noun

  a period of ten years.

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half-decade

Look, we know who she is, the 28-year-old Belarusian who’s been the best women’s player on earth for the past half-decade and entered the Open as the back-to-back champion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

But as Caulfield noted, the wellness movement has undergone a major cultural change in the past half-decade that has made it almost unrecognizable from the movement that birthed MAHA.

From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026

Terry has been Anaheim’s most consistent offensive player for the past half-decade, scoring at least 19 goals and 50 points each year.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Drake turns the frigid, isolated mansion rap that’s become his trademark toward relitigating the last half-decade of petty squabbles and minor slights.

From Salon ● May 21, 2026

Yet even in the peaceful progress of the half-decade just before 1914 there were signs of approaching disaster, symptoms of hysteria.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 The Recent Days (1910-1914) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

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