seminal

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"Their listings could be seminal for the Indian markets in the way the marquee offerings of software companies became many decades ago," he adds.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 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

Walker, raised in the Sunland-Tujunga area, said the event will include tributes to cars made popular by the seminal Southern California car scene, including a lowrider and exotic car display.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Shin’s long collaboration with Tobias Adrian produced the seminal paper “Liquidity and Leverage,” which mapped how mark-to-market balance sheets turn rising asset prices into procyclical leverage — and how the reverse produces violent feedback loops.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

But in part because it seemed so seminal and symbolic of sectional cooperation, the Adams-Jefferson tandem stood out as the greatest collaboration of them all.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis