epochal

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Recent Examples of epochal With its endlessly quotable teen slang, closet-envy fashion, and pop culture references, the film remains an epochal '90s movie that hasn't lost a stitch of charm or relevance. Danny Horn, EW.com, 19 July 2025 This movie was meant to be DC’s epochal Avengers-like moment. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 11 July 2025 Mark Blyth, a political economist at Brown University, sees the economy heading for an epochal change, though a dominant economic order has yet to fully take shape. Brit Morse, Fortune, 6 July 2025 Jessica Winter, staff writer covering family: Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic is not epochal, Dobbs-level bad in terms of its impact on reproductive rights. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 3 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for epochal
Recent Examples of Synonyms for epochal
Adjective
  • Even for those players still working on the court, these Finals are only the beginning of what promises to be a momentous stretch for the league off it.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Chef Amosu shared his inspiration for this momentous occasion and why having ownership of narratives that depict the cultures of Africa matters.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Essence, 8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Its inaction was as earthshaking as action can be, especially because both the shah and his opponents were governed by their perceptions of what the U.S. did or did not want.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 5 Aug. 2025
  • But don’t expect this debate to be as earthshaking or as game-changing as the Biden-Trump confrontation June 27 Sign-up for Your Vote: Text with the USA TODAY elections team.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • The duo pushes the concept of illusion versus reality to the extreme, personally and professionally, until tragedy reframes and opens a mystery surrounding their last fateful Las Vegas show.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Varma was determined to see Tweety avoid a fate that had befallen so many chicks at the farm both before and since that fateful day.
    Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The premiere ends with the 113 arriving at a country music festival, where an impending twister has torn apart the stage, resulting in several life-and-death crises.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Few people have mined as much entertainment from the contrast between high stakes and low morals — from how the life-and-death concerns of a big heist or an elaborate conspiracy might ultimately just reinforce the sense that nothing matters, and nobody gets out alive.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The deal accelerated over several crucial moments — Israel’s strike on Qatar, discussions on the sidelines of the recent United Nations General Assembly in New York City and Jared Kushner’s conversations with his father-in-law, these sources said.
    Yamiche Alcindor, NBC news, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Health care has become even more crucial, the union argues, with the possibility that rates under the Affordable Care Act might increase dramatically in coming months.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Epochal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epochal. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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