year

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Recent Examples of year Today, a lot of ocean debris is human-created: there are billions of pieces of plastic in the ocean, and every year more ends up there. JSTOR Daily, 24 Oct. 2025 SpaceX has now launched 134 Falcon 9 missions this year — also a record — and five suborbital test flights of its Starship megarocket. Mike Wall, Space.com, 24 Oct. 2025 This also marks the second Christmas Carol pic announced this year after Warner Bros. also put in development an adaptation from Robert Eggers with Willem Dafoe in line to play Scrooge. Justin Kroll, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025 Dion’s recording reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 that year and was certified gold. Gary Graff, Billboard, 23 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for year
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Noun
  • Feel free to bring the kids, who can enjoy a kids' corner with arts and crafts, story times and more, as well as Teen Scene all day activities.
    Caroline Ritzie, Cincinnati Enquirer, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Some families had to go without benefits for several days this month, Haynes said, and many federal workers in the Sacramento region are going unpaid in a season when the demand for food assistance always soars.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 12 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In the six-month-long outdoor study conducted on the roof of the Sydney Nanoscience Hub, dew could be collected over 32 percent of the year and so could provide a sustainable and predictable supply of water even in periods with no rain.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Michkov had a few good chances in the third period against Ottawa.
    Kevin Kurz, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • This can reduce time needed for extensive wind tunnel testing or large-scale computer simulations.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The buttons control the cooking modes, temperature setting (up to 450 degrees Fahrenheit), and cook time, which can also be conveniently adjusted using the dial.
    Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • The company announced that a test cell manufactured using its Kavian dry-printing process retained 83% of its charge after 4,000 cycles.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 9 Nov. 2025
  • Investing in Polywood furniture can be your key to breaking the cycle.
    Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Solar panels, for example, can make a big difference in sustainable energy generation, and so can wind power.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Sure, Johnson’s physics-defying mid-air adjustment shows up in college football highlight supercuts, but the networks that run the sport today rarely dig up the footage from the late, great Jefferson Pilot Sports to educate the next generation.
    The Athletic College Football Staff, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • His rule finally came to an end in 1998 after the Asian financial crisis threw the country into economic turmoil, prompting widespread protests and forcing Suharto to resign – one of the last people power movements to sweep Southeast Asia and replace a Cold War-era autocrat with democracy.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 11 Nov. 2025
  • The damage done by Dumont allowing Harrison to trade Doncic to the Los Angeles Lakers in February is a level of self-infliction that few sports franchises in the modern era have ever executed.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Nov. 2025

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