seminal
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George Russell's admission after qualifying that he has been struggling to maximise the Mercedes car all season felt like a seminal moment in the championship fight.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 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
“This is really a seminal, critical trial that’s going to affect society,” the 73-year-old Jackson, a retired sketch artist.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
The academic bookshelf groans with the weight of studies of the phenomenon, but the seminal analysis of the topic remains a 1997 paper by economist Severin Borenstein of UC Berkeley and his colleagues.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
Pauling’s seminal paper on the protein helix was published in April 1951.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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