epoch
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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
I've been presenting television debates and radio phone-ins over five decades, stumbling from one epoch to the next.
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
"In principle, I think that this is not an epoch in which you expect to find many of these objects. It helps to constrain the timescales of bar formation. And it's just really interesting."
From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 2026
Fundamental to Clark’s investment worldview is his conviction that “the era of capital abundance has ended” and global markets are adjusting towards a new epoch of capital scarcity.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026
By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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