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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Is there another right fielder this millennium who better symbolically represents the Giants than Pence?
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Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
SpaceX has developed a titanic rocket and Starship super-capsule - ultimately designed to speed 100 astronauts across Moon and Mars odysseys - that might one day be chronicled as one of the technological wonders of the new millennium.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Humanity’s oldest epic is a doomed quest for immortality: Around four millenniums ago, the Sumerians told of a Mesopotamian king named Gilgamesh who set out to find life everlasting and briefly located a youth-restoring plant, only to lose it on his way home.
—Joe Kloc, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
The country’s links to the island—home to fewer than 60,000 people, most of whom are Inuit—stretch back centuries: Norse settlers arrived in the territory over a millennium ago before eventually disappearing, and Denmark began colonizing the island in the 1700s.
—Sara Dorn, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 1 Jan. 2025
SpaceX has developed a titanic rocket and Starship super-capsule - ultimately designed to speed 100 astronauts across Moon and Mars odysseys - that might one day be chronicled as one of the technological wonders of the new millennium.
—Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
Humanity’s oldest epic is a doomed quest for immortality: Around four millenniums ago, the Sumerians told of a Mesopotamian king named Gilgamesh who set out to find life everlasting and briefly located a youth-restoring plant, only to lose it on his way home.
—Joe Kloc, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
The country’s links to the island—home to fewer than 60,000 people, most of whom are Inuit—stretch back centuries: Norse settlers arrived in the territory over a millennium ago before eventually disappearing, and Denmark began colonizing the island in the 1700s.
—Sara Dorn, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Millennium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/millennium. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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