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Do decades take an apostrophe?

No. Write 1990s and 2020s with no apostrophe, because these are plurals rather than possessives. An apostrophe before the s in 1990's would make it possessive, which is almost never what is meant.

This comes up on Apostrophe Rules Explained, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.

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