epic

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TV production schedules being what they are, it seems unlikely that “Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution” was intended as a direct response to the recent Ken Burns epic on the same subject.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Habitat destruction, overfishing and water pollution from the Amazon to the Danube threaten the very survival of hundreds of species whose epic voyages along the world's great rivers go largely unnoticed.

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Rather, it is a panoramic account of the European war and the slow, steady and epic defeat of Hitler’s Germany as seen through the record of the British people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

That’s what led to an epic superbloom in 2017, Joan Dudney, an assistant professor of forest ecology at UC Santa Barbara, told The Times in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Her nerves getting the best of her, Seven began to talk nonstop and, over Thorn’s grandma Lilou’s famous fluffy pancakes, recounted the epic fight of the day before.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega