seminal
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There were storyboards of the classic “1984” ad, color studies for Apple’s rainbow logo and drafts of the seminal memo laying out the company’s guiding principles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
Larry Tesler, who died recently, was a key figure in a seminal PC demonstration given to Steve Jobs at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
As Mr. McGurn observes, it’s ironic that Pope Leo, previously an Augustinian friar, disregards the seminal work on just-war philosophy by his order’s namesake.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
The Britpop era was "a seminal movement", he reflects.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
Considering the frequency with which they turn up at seminal events in eighteenth-century science, remarkably little is known about either man.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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