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epoch

[ep-uhk, ee-pok] / ˈɛp ək, ˈi pɒk /
NOUN
period
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Today America is in the midst of the greatest epoch of wealth creation the world has ever known.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

But for Icelanders, whose connection to glaciers is ancient and mythic, our human epoch has become an extended hospice for the landscape of their lives.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2026

Six, five and four minutes on the clock and Hearts were winning the league, smashing to smithereens that established order; history-makers, epoch definers.

From BBC May 16, 2026

This site dates back between 11 million and 16 million years to the Miocene epoch, a period when many modern plants and animals first appeared.

From Science Daily Apr. 23, 2026

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Glass’ subject matter varies widely in epochs and ethoses, from ancient Egypt to Walt Disney’s Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 5, 2026

It’s an unparalleled opportunity to do a deep dive into one of the most dazzling epochs in the history of art and, at just over 70 paintings, one that is perfectly scaled.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 24, 2026

He said Traoré was "offering an alternative, and re-capturing the spirit of two historic epochs":

From BBC May 11, 2025

Since the paleoecologists focus on Deep Time, or epochs from tens of millions of years ago, they call their ensembles DeepMIPs.

From Salon Feb. 17, 2025

Worse, the agreed ages for the Earth couldn’t comfortably support the numbers of eons and ages and epochs that the past obviously contained.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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