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Recent Examples of epochal
But China in 2025 is suffering the consequences of a Xi era that’s talked a great game of epochal change but achieved little.
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William Pesek, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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
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
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William Pesek, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for epochal
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On Saturday evening, Prince George made his debut at the Festival of Remembrance — a momentous step for the 12-year-old royal.—
Meredith Kile,
PEOPLE,
9 Nov. 2025
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But the momentous opening will be without one of its stars.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
4 Nov. 2025
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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.—
Arash Azizi,
The Atlantic,
5 Aug. 2025
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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.—
Michael Collins,
USA TODAY,
9 Sep. 2024
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The war received vast nationwide support at the time, with some 73 percent backing military action following Bush's fateful 2002 State of the Union address, according to a poll conducted at the time by the Pew Research Center.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Nov. 2025
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Cue the next part of the flashback to that fateful night with Flambae.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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And alas, a number of Americans are learning the hard way that sunshine and mid-fifties in the high country can quickly become a life-and-death situation.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
27 Oct. 2025
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The editor used audio recordings from doorbell cameras and a series of 911 calls to give audiences a sense of the confrontation, which is far different from the life-and-death scenario Lorincz describes to police officers.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
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Published in Aerospace Science and Technology, the study describes that the Accurate prediction of aerodynamic drag characteristics across a wide range of wing-body configurations is crucial in the early design stages of transonic commercial transport aircraft.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Nov. 2025
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On Wednesday, investigators recovered the plane’s black boxes — the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder — which could hold crucial information about what led to the disaster.—
Alexandra Banner,
CNN Money,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Epochal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epochal. Accessed 15 Nov. 2025.
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