epochal
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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
For a cricket-mad nation long waiting for its women to stand shoulder to shoulder with its men, this triumph felt epochal - the spark of a new era.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025
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
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
Ptolemaeus’s epochal influence has had the effect of making ancient astronomy seem, to us, a lot less diverse than it was.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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