epic

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Turner, who grew up in Warwickshire, shot to fame as Sansa Stark in HBO's fantasy epic Game of Thrones, and went on to appear as Jean Grey in the X-Men films.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 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

New Zealand is known for majestic landscapes, epic filmmaking and once-in-a-lifetime vacations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

The material for a great epic is there, as great as the Iliad, perhaps even greater, but no poet came to work it over as Homer did the early stories which preceded the Iliad.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton