historic
Example Sentences
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Lords Leader Baroness Smith said the "historic legislation" realised Labour's manifesto pledge to remove the right of all hereditary peers to sit and vote in the upper house.
From BBC
In the spring of 2022, the U.S. saw a historic release of 180 million barrels ordered by the Biden administration to help ease gasoline prices in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
From MarketWatch
The biggest moment from Sunday night’s Oscars telecast wasn’t Troy Kotsur’s historic win for best supporting actor, Jessica Chastain’s impassioned speech after securing the best actress award or the multiple Oscars won by “CODA.”
From Salon
The painting has been transferred to the permanent collection of the Palazzo Barberini - the historic home of the family of the portrait's subject in Rome - where it was first exhibited.
From BBC
Consider a historic footnote from World War II. Shortly after Pearl Harbor in 1941, all the Germans and Japanese in their embassies in Washington were sent under guard to the luxurious Greenbrier and Homestead resorts.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
