watershed
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In another one-star review, Kevin Maher of the Times said Michael would be seen as a "watershed moment" for the music biopic genre - and not in a good way.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
Anne Quinn Young, the chief mission officer of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, the country’s largest funder of myeloma research, calls the new IMS definition of the term cure “a watershed moment.”
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026
That argument, and the jury’s acceptance of it, is a legal watershed.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026
That would be a watershed for the European Union, which even in increasingly protectionist times has steered clear of local-content rules.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 12, 2026
The Chicago meeting was the watershed moment in the atomic bomb project.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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