epic

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Rooted in epic and devotional storytelling, it played out on all-sided stages, driven by heightened voice, gesture and costume.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

“Apple’s story is an epic tale of frenetic all-nighters and creative rebellion,” he wrote in his book.

From Los Angeles Times • 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

The story is a sweeping epic around the time of Jesus.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Behind the epic variance of natural organisms—tall; short; wrinkled; smooth; green; yellow; brown—there were corpuscles of hereditary information, moving from one generation to the next.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee