seminal

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Seminal moments in the history of the U.S. workplace included the fight for a 10-hour workday, the creation of OSHA, the rise of gig work and these other key developments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Seminal roots give the seedlings an initial advantage under optimal conditions: They enable them to absorb large amounts of nutrients from the soil very rapidly.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

Seminal work at Livingstone’s lab has shown that experience and learning are essential for the development of the FFA.

From Scientific American • Nov. 15, 2021

Seminal soul and funk composer Sly Stone has been awarded $5 million in royalties and damages by a Los Angeles County court.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2015

Whereas the Fire do’s not act like any of the Seminal Principles, but destroyes them all, when they come within its Reach.

From The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. by Boyle, Robert