seminal
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The beloved singer, 51, rose to fame as part of The Fugees and released her seminal solo record The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in 1998 - still her only studio album.
From BBC • Jun. 29, 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
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
An installation conceived by the evening’s creative director, artist Piero Golia, celebrated Walker’s seminal “Monuments” commission and McCarthy’s famous “White Snow.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 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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