decades

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decades

/ˈdɛkeɪdz/

noun

plural plural of decade For decades American politicians have assumed that mass incarceration works, wooing voters with ever-tougher sentencing laws. The dramatic fall in crime since the 1990s has persuaded many that they were right. Locking up the worst criminals while they are young, fit and dangerous clearly makes Ameri

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Closest in meaning: decennary, decennium, ten, tenner, x, ans, centuries, contract, contracts, deals, dozens, futures, scores, tens, years, yrs

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@misc{decades_2026,
  title = {decades},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/decades},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}