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
Six, five and four minutes on the clock and Hearts were winning the league, smashing to smithereens that established order; history-makers, epoch definers.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
Its plot conjures up a powerful spirit from an ancient epoch: the era of Richard Nixon, when “The Exorcist” was released.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 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
Indeed, the wealth of Egypt had political effects that long outlasted the Hellenistic epoch.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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