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epoch

[ep-uhk, ee-pok] / ˈɛp ək, ˈi pɒk /
NOUN
period
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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 Eocene epoch, which lasted from roughly 56 to 34 million years ago, provides a clear example of what happened when the carbon burial feedback was largely inactive.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 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

So how should investors position themselves for this new, problematic epoch?

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 10, 2026

End of an epoch, I could tell the king.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

“Every time we have one of these technical epochs, it puts pressure on the infrastructure, but none of us have ever seen it this dramatic,” said Casado.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

In such a scenario, black holes could act as bridges not just between time directions, but between different cosmological epochs.

From Science Daily ● May 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

He said Traoré was "offering an alternative, and re-capturing the spirit of two historic epochs":

From BBC ● May 11, 2025

These—oral culture, written culture, the culture of print—these have always been considered the great epochs of man.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson




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