year

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Recent Examples of year One such example is Mountain Trek Health Reset Retreat a week-long immersive health retreat in British Columbia, Canada, that’s been around for over 30 years. Judy Koutsky, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025 Vox Media, like many other media companies, has implemented multiple rounds of layoffs in recent years, most recently with a third wave of job cuts in January within a brief succession of weeks. Todd Spangler, Variety, 13 June 2025 Three years after that, Critical Role went independent. James Grebey, Rolling Stone, 13 June 2025 The trend has been simmering for years — the longstanding Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago isn’t returning this summer, following similar announcements last year from Atlanta’s Music Midtown and Kickoff Jam in Florida. Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 1 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for year
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Noun
  • As police struggled with another day of unrest in downtown L.A., several Waymo autonomous taxis were set on fire, sending thick plumes of black smoke billowing high into the air.
    Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
  • The mural is located in the Fashion District of downtown Los Angeles, about 20 miles from Paramount, where the riots have taken place for several days.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 9 June 2025
Noun
  • Act that provided $80 billion to the IRS over 10 years — over a 10-year period.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
  • Unlike many period drama estates, Inveraray is open to the public, allowing visitors to step inside a genuine Scottish stronghold steeped in centuries of clan history.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • The number Ferrari chose for the debut is 51, which was the number of the winning Ferrari in 2023, when the marque won Le Mans for the first time in almost 60 years.
    Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 16 June 2025
  • The project will be made with the full participation of Iglesias in the creative process for the first time.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • There were these cycles of glaciation and then the retreat of glaciers and then more glaciation and the retreat of them.
    Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
  • The city had sought an Environmental Protection Agency grant last year to pay for the removal cost, but missed the grant cycle at the time.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • Lowe's grandfather was a commercial fisherman, and his grandfather's uncles were commercial whalers, who passed down the terror of whales to the subsequent generations, Lowe said.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 8 June 2025
  • But unlike previous technological waves, AI’s transformative power is being concentrated in the hands of remarkably few players, creating global imbalances that threaten to entrench existing inequalities for generations.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Hearing his songs on the app, Khalid finds himself in an earlier era.
    Richard Trapunski, Billboard, 6 June 2025
  • In a later era, McCarthy would have been accused of spreading misinformation and attacking free speech.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 6 June 2025

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“Year.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/year. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.

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