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era

[eer-uh, er-uh] / ˈɪər ə, ˈɛr ə /


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"We are in a new era here, similar to 70-odd years ago," said Frank Nerling, a Jefferson Lab collaborator from Germany's GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research and Goethe University Frankfurt.

From Science Daily Sep. 2, 2026

However, City have also achieved around £300m worth of player sales this summer, illustrating the vast turnover at the start of the post-Guardiola era.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

She is thrilled that “The Drop” is exploring a vitally creative era: “The ’90s was a great time.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 1, 2026

It also has to start winning over Gen Z in an era of fickle wellness trends and viral food crazes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

Hannah Arendt, the influential cultural critic who documented the perverse excesses of Nazism, would later write about the “banality of evil” that permeated German culture during the Nazi era.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Glasner era - like all other managerial eras at Forest - will not be dull.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

The eras of "The Odyssey" and the Vikings happened about 2,000 years apart -- so how did a Viking longship end up with a starring role in this year's blockbuster movie?

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

But somewhere between the “you go, girl” and #MeToo eras emerged a dishonesty around how we discuss women’s bodies.

From Salon Aug. 13, 2026

Along the breezy streets, you’ll find a tale of two eras: the town’s surf bum past and its glitzy present.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 31, 2026

By comparing how fast galaxies were receding at different eras in the past, the astronomers were able to track how fast space-time was expanding.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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