Meanings
- pluralplural onlyThe decade from Wednesday, January 1, 2070 to Sunday, December 31, 2079.
The first beneficiaries will be people living in the 2070s because of what’s already in the system.
2022 April 22, David Marchese, “This Eminent Scientist Says Climate Activists Need to Get Real”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 27 Apr 20222 more examples
Moderate reductions in emissions of heat-trapping gases — sufficient to stop global emissions growth by 2040 and bring emissions down to half their current levels by the 2070s — can avoid those paralyzing extremes and limit the expected late-century experience of the average American to about 18 dangerously humid days a year. And strong reductions — bringing global emissions to zero by the 2080s — can cap the growth of humidity extremes by the midcentury.
2015 June 6, Robert Kopp, Jonathan Buzan and Matthew Huber, “The Deadly Combination of Heat and Humidity”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Nov 2020It’s the 2070s, sea levels have risen and war stalks the land, but government — and government’s fussy linguistic style — endures.
2019 March 14, Ben H. Winters, “What Do the Make-Believe Bureaucracies of Sci-Fi Novels Say About Us?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2020
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