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How to celebrate countdown to 2026.
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Kristie Keleshian, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
These modules have a 25-year shelf life, and the countdown has already begun.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium will have an early countdown on New Year’s Eve.
—Rashad Alexander
december 26, Kansas City Star, 26 Dec. 2025
How women can take action early The decades of one’s 30s and 40s don’t need to be a countdown to decline, but instead, an opportunity to build metabolic resilience.
—Anna Barton Bradley, The Conversation, 26 Dec. 2025
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Kristie Keleshian, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2025
These modules have a 25-year shelf life, and the countdown has already begun.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium will have an early countdown on New Year’s Eve.
—Rashad Alexander
december 26, Kansas City Star, 26 Dec. 2025
How women can take action early The decades of one’s 30s and 40s don’t need to be a countdown to decline, but instead, an opportunity to build metabolic resilience.
—Anna Barton Bradley, The Conversation, 26 Dec. 2025
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“Countdown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/countdown. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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countdown
noun
count·down
ˈkau̇nt-ˌdau̇n 
: the process of counting off backward in fixed units (as seconds) the time remaining before an event (as the launching of a rocket)
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