epic
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Supermodel Bella Hadid let her figure-hugging Schiaparelli dress do the talking for her at the premiere of the epic Charles de Gaulle biopic "De Gaulle: Tilting Iron".
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
And so this is why, paradoxically, the epic failure of HS2 might in fact mean the Western leg gets built in full.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
Even before Monday’s opening tip, the basketball world was preparing for an epic series between the two favorites to take home the championship.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
The fictional movie he’s making looks stiff, a period epic about Spain’s colonialist withdrawal from the Sahara in the 1930s, which doubles as a metaphor for the father’s destructive absence from his now-adult child’s life.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026
In his epic novel Les Misérables, Victor Hugo used Vidocq as a model for both Jean Valjean and Inspector Javert—the convict and the law.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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Poetry: Genres
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