epochal
Example Sentences
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These rankings help focus on the fact that what we’re experiencing now is generationally, almost on an epochal level, different.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026
Going much further back, oil prices also rocketed during the epochal crisis of World War II in the 1940s.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026
In the immediate aftermath of that epochal event, McCartney retreated to a 183-acre sheep farm on the Kintyre Peninsula in Argyllshire, Scotland, with his wife Linda and their young family.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
"It feels like an epochal moment, and it also feels extraordinarily terrifying."
From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025
To their colleagues, Rutherford and Lawrence would be known as “the two Ernests,” and their work would bookend an epochal quest for knowledge of the natural world.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
