How to Use Common Era in a Sentence
Common Era
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Thousands of years before the start of the Common Era people used bitumen, a form of heavy oil, for building mortar and to waterproof boats.
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Scott L. Montgomery,
The Conversation,
7 Apr. 2026
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This Easter, as some Christians get tattoos, this history might serve as a reminder of tattooing as a legitimate Christian practice, one that has been in use since the beginnings of the Common Era.
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Gustavo Morello,
The Conversation,
6 Mar. 2024
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The set of 10 developed as the standard enumeration in the Haggadah, the liturgical text of Passover, which was first compiled in the early centuries of the Common Era and redacted toward the end of the first millennium.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Sanskrit word for sugar, śarkarā, is akin to the Sanskrit word for gravel or pebble, śarkara, which suggests that the granular form of sugarcane was known from at least the early centuries of the Common Era, with possible cultivation of sugar in India even earlier.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
31 Mar. 2026
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Tantric cultural and spiritual traditions, which began to emerge in the early centuries of the Common Era, take a positive perspective on the material world in general and the human body in particular, as opposed to traditions that regard both as inherently illusory or sinful.
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Anya Foxen,
The Conversation,
9 Dec. 2025
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Despite those anatomical absences, scholar Lodwick Pollak was able to identify the sculpture as a second-century marble copy of the celebrated Discobolus, the original cast in bronze by Myron four centuries before the Common Era.
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Literary Hub,
10 Feb. 2026
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