epic
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“Our epic deployment ends today and what this team achieved is amazing,” Keeler said Thursday.
From Los Angeles Times â Oct. 8, 2026
It’s just an epic disaster on so many fronts.
From Slate â Oct. 6, 2026
Elia Kazan’s movie, written by Paul Osborn, barely covers the last third of Steinbeck’s 600-page epic.
From Salon â Oct. 3, 2026
Its tone and rhythms are oracular and epic, as if some ancient prophet is buttonholing you to tell you how the world has always been and will always be.
From The Wall Street Journal â Oct. 2, 2026
“We want the first date to be epic and worthy of how we met,” I say.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
Translations of the Greek epics would influence generations.
From The Wall Street Journal â Aug. 28, 2026
“I see their traces everywhere,” he says of those epics in his introduction.
From The Wall Street Journal â Aug. 28, 2026
Even if Christopher Nolan‘s film adaptation of “The Odyssey” is a smash hit, Matt Damon doesn’t think we’ll see a boom in epics of a similar scale.
From Salon â Jul. 12, 2026
We asked our staffers for their dreamiest expectations and they didn’t hold back: space epics, Matt Damon in a helmet and, yes, a “Jackass” movie.
From Los Angeles Times â May 14, 2026
Asra knew the Orgota staples, the Short-Tales of Meshe, the tale of Parsid, parts of the great epics and the novel-like Sea-Traders saga.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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