year

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Recent Examples of year In the space of a week, two more vendors planted a flag in a part of the AI stack that had no name a year ago. Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026 Pavel Mintyukov signs contract extension with Ducks Defenseman Pavel Mintyukov has agreed to five-year contract extension worth $36 million with the Ducks, a person with knowledge of the negotiations told the Associated Press. Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026 Eligible for a maximum of two four-year terms, the president implements policies within the framework set out by the supreme leader and spearheads Iran’s diplomacy. Xiaoqian Lin, CNN Money, 6 July 2026 State test scores for the 2025-26 school year are coming back, and Georgia public schools are part of a national pattern of declining reading and math skills. Taylor Carney, AJC.com, 6 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for year
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Noun
  • Goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky and backup Daniil Tarasov will both be free agents in a matter of days, leaving Florida with a crucial hole — or net – to fill.
    Ava DiCecca, Sun Sentinel, 30 June 2026
  • But since reports linked the couple's big day to Madison Square Garden on July 3, new details have continued to emerge — from public permits and venue schedules to comments from teammates, city officials and the bride and groom.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Sail 250 has brought foreign militaries to the United States amid a volatile period for the country's international relations.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • Britain controlled Florida from 1763 until the territory was returned to Spain at the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, a period of 20 years.
    Hank Tester, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • While wedding vows typically last about one to three minutes per person, Swift and Kelce took their time celebrating one another on their big day.
    Chanel Vargas, InStyle, 6 July 2026
  • The extraordinary strait lockdown could make this time different.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
Noun
  • Laundry Sheets, In Detail Laundry detergent sheets are ultra-concentrated, thin slabs of solid detergent that dissolve during the wash cycle.
    Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 3 July 2026
  • For Swift, an increase in solar activity magnified this impact over the past couple of years as the sun reached the peak of its 11-year cycle.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Yet emissions still rose because electricity demand increased and coal generation rebounded.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • Delaying much beyond that risks the continuity that has sustained collider physics for generations.
    Florencia Canelli, Scientific American, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Some visitors there, too, can’t help but connect Lincoln’s era in America to today’s politics, said Rob Thurman, the museum’s assistant director.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • Ohio organizers are honoring Toni Morrison with a yearlong, statewide reading project that sequences her 11 novels by era, revealing a sweeping, alternative history of America.
    Leigh Haber, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

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“Year.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/year. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.

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