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years

  • plural
    of year.
    year
    noun
    a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 calendar year, or civil year.

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For the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, U.S. publicly held federal debt reached 100% of gross domestic product for the first time in 80 years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

That’s seven consecutive years above 5%, the longest such streak in at least a century and unprecedented outside wars, recessions or emergencies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

Qualley and Antonoff married in August 2023, a little over a year after they got engaged and two years after first sparking up a romance in August 2021.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

This is just one out of 14 cases brought against Arnon under the same charge, bringing the cumulative sentence he has received so far to more than 34 years.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

I push that memory away and focus on what I know will be the trajectory of my life once I’m done with high school in two years.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold