Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for epics
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However, local creatives such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge later began to pen lofty odes to its glacial lakes, wide meadows, and jutting hills.—
Andrea Bussell,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Dec. 2025 -
The walls are graced with various nods to pop culture from the past few decades, as well as odes to Raytown itself.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
16 Dec. 2025
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The killing immediately drew dueling narratives.—
Matt Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2026
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The killing immediately drew dueling narratives.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
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These books can be read as comedies of cognitive dissonance or as melancholy elegies for the very possibility of closure.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Dec. 2025
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Marwan Hamed and Yousry Nasrallah Two legends of Egyptian cinema, filmmaker Marwan Hamed, whose works are celebrated in IFFR’s 2026 retrospective, and director Yousry Nasrallah will discuss Hamed’s biopic El Sett (IFFR 2026) as well as highlights from their filmmaking careers.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Jan. 2026
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Stingray's clue package mentioned their mom would host parties attended by music legends like Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
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Some have suggested that the Bard had romantic liaisons with men, in part implied by sonnets that are charged with homoerotic elements.—
Nathan Smith,
Time,
26 Nov. 2025
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Seamus Heaney’s sonnets about Northern Ireland in the 1970s and Annie Ernaux’s memoirs of France in the 1960s propose indirect but approachable ways of engaging with personal and national history.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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Seth Rogen and his wife Lauren Miller swap funny tales with Sarah Silverman.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
12 Jan. 2026
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This week’s challenge tests your memory of 21st-century books that were inspired by ancient myths, legends and folk tales.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
12 Jan. 2026
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But while Provo has become developed, its neighbors, Parrish assured me, remain timeless idylls, their empty interiors encircled by endless beaches fringed with casuarina trees.—
Henry Wismayer,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Jan. 2026
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But that sequence of prose idylls was the core of the collection.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Despite all the anecdotes from the 1980s, except in rare cases of localized coyote culture, the vast majority of town coyotes are not scavenging behind Sonic and Burger King.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Jan. 2026
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Friends and even random people who have messaged her on Instagram now sit around her dining room table, stuff packages, and share anecdotes from their recent trips to NPS sites.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Epics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epics. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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