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seminal

adjective as in generative

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Soundgarden, the seminal Seattle grunge rock group, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at a star-studded ceremony at the Peacock Theater on Saturday night.

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The event will celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Beatles’ seminal “Rubber Soul” album.

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“For me, winning a championship, the seminal moment of that is the parade,” Friedman said.

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That a dictionary could influence a court case at all owes in part to Garner’s seminal book on textualism, a conserative legal doctrine that dictates a page-bound interpretation of the law.

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Hemingway’s seminal “iceberg theory” explained that a skilled author could omit things he knows—a husband’s suicide, a traumatic war wound—yet make readers feel them as intensely as if he had actually stated them.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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