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In a city willing to displace a community garden or a newsstand to claw back a few extra feet, the Armory’s yawning, epochal emptiness seems like poking through your medicine cabinet and finding an alternate universe behind it.
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
10 Feb. 2026
The whip-smart, late-20th-century retelling of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most epochal teen rom-coms.
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James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Jan. 2026
Chinese thought leaders conceived of the strategy in epochal terms.
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Alex Wang,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
In many ways, the 1963 Newport Folk Festival was a set-up for the March on Washington, the epochal Civil Rights demonstration that would take place just one month later.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
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Justin Davidson,
Curbed,
10 Feb. 2026
The whip-smart, late-20th-century retelling of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most epochal teen rom-coms.
—
James Mercadante,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Jan. 2026
Chinese thought leaders conceived of the strategy in epochal terms.
—
Alex Wang,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
In many ways, the 1963 Newport Folk Festival was a set-up for the March on Washington, the epochal Civil Rights demonstration that would take place just one month later.
—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for epochal
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The film will follow 11 stories that occurred in the wake of the momentous coup d’état in Chile on September 11, 1973.
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Unfortunately for the 12-year-old North Londoner at the heart of this low-key, low-stakes comedy, the momentous game just happened to coincide with his bar mitzvah.
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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.
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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.
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Ahead of the fateful trip to Zion, Bernadette was growing suspicious about Vander Meer’s behavior.
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Perhaps the biggest problem with this movie is that Supergirl (Helen Slater) seems terribly leisurely about her fateful mission.
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For our hunter-gatherer ancestors, getting enough of these critical nutrients was a daily life-and-death struggle.
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The life-and-death stakes were raised when the former high school series jumped five years to show a now-young adult Rue becoming a drug mule and working for rival kingpins (Martha Kelly’s Laurie also took her own life in the finale).
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The winner of tonight's crucial Australia-Paraguay match will move on to the round of 32.
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Meanwhile, the country’s crucial oil industry needs billions of dollars of investment to get anywhere close to the halcyon days of the late 1990s when production was at its height.
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“Epochal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epochal. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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