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Recent Examples of epochal
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 three momentous events stand on their own, detached enough to seem entirely unrelated.
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At the time, this seemed like the more momentous day, as John Adams wrote in a letter to his wife Abigail on July 3.
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Challenged to score runs even before that fateful Saturday of injuries, the Guardians have been forced to rely upon young prospects to make contributions to the team.
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Knight treated the enthusiastic Annecy crowd to a look at the entire opening act of the film, introducing Prue Mckeel and her family in Portland as well as the events leading up to the fateful kidnapping of her brother.
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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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Both Wine Institute and the California Association of Winegrape Growers applauded the recent letters from Congress to Quebec, saying getting American wine back into Canada is crucial to aiding their struggling industry.
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Fairview a ‘crucial’ crossing The two Fairview bridges were built 44 years apart.
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“Epochal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epochal. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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