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epochal

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




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Mr. Turturro exudes the bleary exhaustion of a man nursing an epochal hangover.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

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

He befriended the Clash on a tour of London and sat in on the band’s sessions recording their epochal “London Calling” LP.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 16, 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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