epoch
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Today America is in the midst of the greatest epoch of wealth creation the world has ever known.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The same bounty that makes the Tar Pits the best place on Earth to study its slice of the late Pleistocene epoch also makes for a move of truly mammoth proportions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Six, five and four minutes on the clock and Hearts were winning the league, smashing to smithereens that established order; history-makers, epoch definers.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
This site dates back between 11 million and 16 million years to the Miocene epoch, a period when many modern plants and animals first appeared.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026
End of an epoch, I could tell the king.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Our critic raved that “it’s an unparalleled opportunity to do a deep dive into one of the most dazzling epochs in the history of art.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026
Disney Chairman James Gorman said in an interview that Iger’s nearly 20 years in power is framed by two epochs: “Bob 1” and “Bob 2.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026
Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge report that the human brain moves through five "major epochs" as it rewires itself from early development to late old age.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2025
He said Traoré was "offering an alternative, and re-capturing the spirit of two historic epochs":
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
Worse, the agreed ages for the Earth couldn’t comfortably support the numbers of eons and ages and epochs that the past obviously contained.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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