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epoch

[ep-uhk, ee-pok] / ˈɛp ək, ˈi pɒk /
NOUN
period
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Meanwhile, the country is in the midst of a technological epoch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

About 7,300 years ago, it produced the largest known volcanic eruption of the Holocene, the current geological epoch, which began roughly 11,700 years ago.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026

The same bounty that makes the Tar Pits the best place on Earth to study its slice of the late Pleistocene epoch also makes for a move of truly mammoth proportions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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

Sometime during the last glacial epoch, when hunter-gatherers were still living in caves, the Neanderthal tool-making mentality gave way to the Cro-Magnon urge to make images.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell

Disney Chairman James Gorman said in an interview that Iger’s nearly 20 years in power is framed by two epochs: “Bob 1” and “Bob 2.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 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

Frieman: The data from these surveys allow us to infer the history of cosmic expansion -- how fast the universe has been expanding at different epochs in the past.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2025

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

From BBC ● May 11, 2025

These—oral culture, written culture, the culture of print—these have always been considered the great epochs of man.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson




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