seminal
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The seminal pop-punk album, full of romantic innocence and disarming humor, foreshadowed the rise of new wave.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
In 1998 she wrote the seminal essay on official Washington’s state of mind during Ken Starr’s investigation into Bill Clinton.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
A co-author of a seminal research paper that kicked off the AI boom, Shazeer quit the company in 2021 to start his own company after Google refused to release a chatbot he developed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
"It is an incredible, seminal moment in this country."
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
One’s answer, it turned out, depended a great deal on which founding moment, 1776 or 1787, seemed most seminal.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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