decadelong
Americanadjective
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WASHINGTON—The U.S. is in the process of withdrawing all of its roughly 1,000 troops from Syria, according to three American officials, ending a decadelong military operation in the country.
U.S. troops have vacated a strategic military base in southeast Syria and turned it over to government forces, a U.S. official said, ending a decadelong presence as part of a broader drawdown of American troops in the country.
In a TED Talk released on Monday, I describe a decadelong effort to measure hip hop’s impact.
The statement signaled the end to a more than decadelong U.S. security partnership with the SDF, a coalition of Kurdish and Arab fighters who have operated a small state within a state in northeastern Syria for years.
That’s just to remind you of Pittsburgh’s decadelong carousel under center.
From Los Angeles Times
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