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seminal

[sem-uh-nl] / ˈsɛm ə nl /


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Roni Size and Reprazent will perform their seminal album New Forms live across the UK next year to celebrate 30 years since its release.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Tony Berlant, a seminal influence in the West Coast Pop Art movement of the 1960s, died Tuesday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

The most sharply etched genres achieve their proportions by way of just a few seminal examples.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Wiles revealed that she doesn’t have “these seminal moments where you have to go in and tell the president what he wants to do is unconstitutional or will cost lives. I don’t have that.”

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

And of course, music, the liberation of which is considered a seminal geek accomplishment.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz


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