Meaning of 2030s | Babel Free

Definitions

The decade from Tuesday, January 1, 2030 to Saturday, December 31, 2039.

plural, plural-only

Examples

“In what they termed “a call⟳ to arms,” an organization of American university astronomers said last⟳ week that NASA should begin⟳ planning now to launch⟳ a sort⟳ of supersize version of the Hubble Space Telescope in the 2030s to look⟳ for life beyond Earth.”

“Today, the world is seeing record-shattering storms in California and catastrophic drought in places like⟳ East Africa. But by the 2030s, as temperatures rise⟳, climate hazards are expected to increase⟳ all over the globe as different countries face⟳ more crippling heat waves, worsening coastal flooding and crop failures, the report⟳ says.”

“The first summer on record⟳ that melts practically all of the Arctic’s floating sea ice could occur⟳ as early as the 2030s, according to a new scientific study⟳ — about a decade sooner than researchers previously predicted.”

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