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epochal

[ep-uh-kuhl, ee-po-] / ˈɛp ə kəl, ˈi pɒ- /




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Going much further back, oil prices also rocketed during the epochal crisis of World War II in the 1940s.

From MarketWatch Feb. 20, 2026

From a trade perspective, 2026 would probably go down in history books as an epochal year for India.

From BBC Feb. 17, 2026

A generation after his assassination, Colosio’s slaying remains an epochal event that continues to cast a shadow over Mexican politics.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 13, 2025

The scientists of the Manhattan Project, who helped build the bomb and then witnessed Trinity’s fireball, recognized—felt—its epochal shudder.

From Slate Jul. 17, 2025

The epochal confrontation between the two views of the Cosmos—Earth-centered and Sun-centered—reached a climax in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the person of a man who was, like Ptolemy, both astrologer and astronomer.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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