epic
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It’s just an epic disaster on so many fronts.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2026
An epic tale inspired by Hitler's indecision about whether to invade Britain, Archer poured everything into it.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
“If there’s anything tumultuous happening now . . . I wouldn’t know, I haven’t been paying attention,” she jokes, “just remember that historically, an enlightenment of epic proportions is probably not far off.”
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
Hilton has been campaigning hard, as though he has more than the merest speck of a chance of pulling an epic upset and somehow prevailing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
A large crowd of mice and woodlanders had gathered to witness the epic ascent.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Translations of the Greek epics would influence generations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“I see their traces everywhere,” he says of those epics in his introduction.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
There’s Big Ridley, the visionary filmmaker of large-scale epics who has spent nearly 50 years creating some of the most indelible worlds in modern movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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
Cleopatra read Homer’s epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, poetry by Hesiod and Pindar; and plays by Euripides and Menander.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
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