epochal

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Recent Examples of epochal The Baltimore artist tracked Darwin’s epochal trip via Google Street View, which isn’t known for ocean scenes. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 5 July 2024 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. EW.com, 13 May 2024 Last year, two TV series, Netflix’s Transatlantic and Nat Geo’s A Small Light, illuminated the other side of the epochal struggle between Nazism and humanism, dramatizing the stories of real people who fought to save the lives of Jews and other targets of the Reich. TIME, 8 May 2024 But in 1895, the composer already dead, a revival took place at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, the music and scenario tweaked and with new choreography by the great Marius Petipa and his assistant Lev Ivanov (for the epochal lakeside action). Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024 See all Example Sentences for epochal 
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Adjective
  • What’s important now, Close said, is what her team does with this momentous triumph.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 24 Nov. 2024
  • Hundreds or even thousands might show up, depending on how momentous the decision was.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 21 Nov. 2024
Adjective
  • 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
  • Had Asian demand kept to its historic trend, there would have been no massive glut and probably no earthshaking price collapse.
    Michael Levi, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Adjective
  • The author presents us with a dual progression: the tale of modern-day father and son treasure hunters and their search for the Connaught, interspersed with a recreation of the fateful journey of that vessel itself.
    Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Perfect for anyone who remembers that fateful day, or as an introduction for anyone who doesn't.
    Rachel Flynn, People.com, 3 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • As time starts running out, emotions intensify, resulting in a love triangle with life-and-death stakes.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Look how Miami looked at home: Three turnovers, 206 rushing yards allowed and 34 points surrendered in a life-and-death battle against 2-2 Virginia Tech, whose two wins came against Marshall and Old Dominion (Its two losses were against Rutgers and Vanderbilt).
    Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • In contrast, for the center of the film—the crucial year 1968—Schrader uses a wide-screen frame and an alluring peach-and-mint palette that evokes classic Hollywood melodramas.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
  • Yet over the years, colleagues have criticized and debunked the experiment, citing Zimbardo’s interventions and crucial details left out of his portrayal of what happened.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024

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“Epochal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epochal. Accessed 9 Dec. 2024.

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