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years

noun
/jɪəz/UK/jɜːz//jɪɹz/US

Definitions

  1. plural of year.

    • 1981, May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers, said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago.
    • Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.

  2. A very long time.

    • It took years for the bus to come.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at years. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at years. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at years

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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