epic
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Former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has said he wants US President Donald Trump to lead him to the ring "for his epic showdown with Anthony Joshua", according to the Daily Star.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
“If there’s anything tumultuous happening now . . . I wouldn’t know, I haven’t been paying attention,” she jokes, “just remember that historically, an enlightenment of epic proportions is probably not far off.”
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
This spring Pogacar won a race he long coveted—Milan-San Remo, a hilly one-day epic in Italy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
“I knew I had seen an epic production, an epic product from an epic producer,” Ruscha said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 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
Mr. Power begins his survey with Chapman’s Homer but frequently casts his glance backward to the Homeric epics themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“I see their traces everywhere,” he says of those epics in his introduction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Even if Christopher Nolan‘s film adaptation of “The Odyssey” is a smash hit, Matt Damon doesn’t think we’ll see a boom in epics of a similar scale.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2026
We asked our staffers for their dreamiest expectations and they didn’t hold back: space epics, Matt Damon in a helmet and, yes, a “Jackass” movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
“This is a new age of epics, you see,” said the sage-poet.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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