millennium

as in renaissance
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 millennium For more nostalgia, Taco Bell has a line of merchandise inspired by the then-new millennium. Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 28 Aug. 2025 The approach paid off, and F1’s corporate hospitality earned recognition from major sponsors as the new millennium approached. Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025 As today’s world faces rising sea levels driven by climate change, the researchers hope to shed light on how Stone Age societies adapted to shifting coastlines more than eight millennia ago. Jason Ma, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025 These tablets from the end of the fourth millennium BCE show that writing did not emerge fully formed overnight, and that it was developed not to write sonnets, but receipts. Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for millennium
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  • Zack Kass, who ran Go-to-Market at OpenAI, made a compelling argument for why we are poised to enter a new renaissance—a flourishing of art, science, and society.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Just a couple of short years into the modern fighting-game renaissance that was kickstarted by titles like Street Fighter 6, Tekken 8, and Mortal Kombat 1, the scene is booming.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2025
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  • The Stockyards location is a towering, two-story, 11,416-square-foot brick cold-storage warehouse and meat locker that opened in the heyday of the Fort Worth Stockyards cattle market and nearby meat packinghouses.
    Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
  • That night, Mare finds Ned watching old footage of the Truth Teller in its heyday, with the editor running the printing press himself.
    Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 4 Sep. 2025

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“Millennium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millennium. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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