epic
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The trip and epic feast had been worth it: La Mar had purchased the final seven and a half years of Tabla’s lease.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
These include any number of household-name technology giants whose stocks have been borne aloft to epic valuations by AI hopes and ambitions.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Shelton had never beaten a top-three opponent until powering past Alcaraz - who was playing in his first tournament for almost five months - in an epic quarter-final which ended at 3:34am.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" sailed into a close third place, drawing another $7.4 million domestically, for an epic $1.64 billion over its nine-week global box office journey.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Severe epic disapproval—such as moms and teachers do real well.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
Mr. Power begins his survey with Chapman’s Homer but frequently casts his glance backward to the Homeric epics themselves.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
He often writes with the candor of a memoirist, sharing personal moments that connect him to his subjects or to Homer’s epics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Although he established himself with futuristic films like “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” he showed a knack for emotional drama with 1991’s “Thelma & Louise” and for historical epics like 2000’s “Gladiator.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
It’s believed to have first appeared in text in the Mahabharata, one of two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
The novelist would later win the Nobel Prize, but he was already famous for his classic Southern epics like The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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