half-decade

• a word derived from decade.
  decade

  noun

  a period of ten years.

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half-decade

She grew up wanting to play basketball and dabbling in football, but she has been the de facto face of women who play baseball without picking a bat up for a half-decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 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

The past half-decade has been a boom time for office-to-residential conversions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 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

She who always gathered up the receipts, and the "From one who owes you much"; who could at an instant's warning produce the particular ones for any month of the past half-decade.

From Balcony Stories by Grace E. King

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