epochal

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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

"It feels like an epochal moment, and it also feels extraordinarily terrifying."

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

He doesn’t just distract – he rewrites the story in real time, making the serious seem trivial, and the trivial seem epochal.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 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