epic
Example Sentences
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Ye ended the show with “All of the Lights,” which got a huge pryo display, and “Runaway,” his epic 2010 warning to anyone foolish enough to consider falling in love with him.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2026
TV production schedules being what they are, it seems unlikely that “Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution” was intended as a direct response to the recent Ken Burns epic on the same subject.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Habitat destruction, overfishing and water pollution from the Amazon to the Danube threaten the very survival of hundreds of species whose epic voyages along the world's great rivers go largely unnoticed.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
Colbert is planning to adapt chapters three to eight of The Fellowship of the Ring, in which Frodo and his fellow hobbits begin their epic quest.
From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026
I couldn’t have known it in the moment, but I was committing what would be deemed an epic faux pas.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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