millennia

variants or millenniums
plural of millennium
as in renaissances
a period of happiness and prosperity It is hoped that the new tax plan will bring about a thriving millennium.

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Recent Examples of millennia Further excavations at Hattusa could potentially reveal additional fragments and allow researchers to piece together more of this ancient copy of an agreement that helped end generations of conflict more than three millennia ago. — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026 Socrates used it in Plato’s Phaedrus, more than two millennia before Claude, Perplexity, or the AI-detection tool Pangram existed, to describe writing itself. — Aris Alexander, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026 Thanks to a long and storied past that reaches as far back as four millennia, this mythical place is where legends were born. — Jennifer Tzeses, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2026 The de Poitrines communicated between songs in their own language — which may well predate English (or French) by several millenniums. — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2026 Some two millennia ago Chinese astronomers reported Betelgeuse as being yellow. — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026 Some practitioners, particularly in modern Druidry’s early decades, have maintained that their tradition is a direct continuation of the ancient druids’ religion, one that had been preserved in secret over two millennia. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026 The triumphal arch has been a stock figure in urban landscapes for millenniums. — Edward Keegan, Chicago Tribune, 9 Aug. 2026 The butterflies have been making this migration for as long as 20 millennia, once finding paths to and from the fields gouged out by glaciers retreating with the spring during the last Ice Age. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 28 July 2026
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Noun
  • The Comeback Player of the Year award is unique, open to various career renaissances, and this year features a strong field of candidates.
    — Darren Cooper, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • The pair experienced career renaissances with the success of their sitcom Schitt's Creek, which ran from 2015 to 2020.
    — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 31 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This is a lovely way to remember summer’s blooms or fall’s changing leaves.
    — Jamie Cuccinelli, Martha Stewart, 27 Sep. 2026
  • To help the roots reestablish in the new location, Engel suggests trimming off some blooms or foliage or using a root stimulator solution.
    — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 26 Sep. 2026

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“Millennia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millennia. Accessed 1 Oct. 2026.

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