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the 1890s, considered as a social and cultural period characterized by prosperity and complacency.

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Yet for a vivid decade or so, sleaze was, somewhat paradoxically, a force for literacy and empowerment.
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Who are some younger popular historians that you think will be a lot better known a decade from now?
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Who knew that “we shall overcome” meant “we, the few, shall book covers every decade or so, maybe, sometimes, if we are in style.”
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And black fury toward cops today is fueled by historic economic disparities and by the economic disaster of the past decade plus.
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Beyoncé has, for close to a decade now, been a deity in entertainment: untouchable, successful, divine.
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The eddies beyond the breakwater were a light and delicate mauve and looked nervously alive.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens
During the past decade, the population of three cities has been materially increased through annexation.
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Approximately 216,900 persons became residents of Virginia during this decade.
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We do not know when Chrétien wrote the Erec, but it was almost certainly some time in the decade 1150-60.
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The advancing sand gradually crept into the hamlet, and in the course of a decade dispossessed the people by burying their houses.
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