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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.
—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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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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For gasoline is not only a commodity governed by normal supply and demand—it can also be caught up in momentous world events.—
Daniel Yergin,
Time,
20 June 2026
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Alicia Keys closed out the momentous occasion decked out in a custom all-black leather look, courtesy of a collaboration between Pelle Pelle and Daniel’s Leather.—
Jaden Thompson,
Footwear News,
18 June 2026
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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 location of this scene, at Versailles, where the Allied powers and Germany signed the fateful peace agreement to end the First World War, was striking.—
Ian Crouch,
New Yorker,
18 June 2026
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Jeff Metcalf also told Fox News Digital the school system didn't have strong enough security at the fateful track meet.—
Kelsie Cairns,
FOXNews.com,
15 June 2026
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For our hunter-gatherer ancestors, getting enough of these critical nutrients was a daily life-and-death struggle.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
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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).—
Jackie Strause,
HollywoodReporter,
1 June 2026
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Experts say that because chips perform the advanced computations required for frontier AI systems, cutting off access to the chips is crucial to prevent geopolitical rivals from using AI systems for military or economic purposes.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
18 June 2026
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Performance rotors Rotors also play a crucial role in maximizing your car’s performance.—
BestReviews,
Mercury News,
18 June 2026
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“Epochal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epochal. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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