epochal
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These rankings help focus on the fact that what we’re experiencing now is generationally, almost on an epochal level, different.
From Slate ● Mar. 30, 2026
Going much further back, oil prices also rocketed during the epochal crisis of World War II in the 1940s.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 20, 2026
"It feels like an epochal moment, and it also feels extraordinarily terrifying."
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
Clearly, we are at the threshold of epochal change.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2025
The epochal confrontation between the two views of the Cosmos—Earth-centered and Sun-centered—reached a climax in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the person of a man who was, like Ptolemy, both astrologer and astronomer.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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