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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 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

This site dates back between 11 million and 16 million years to the Miocene epoch, a period when many modern plants and animals first appeared.

From Science Daily Apr. 23, 2026

Indeed, the wealth of Egypt had political effects that long outlasted the Hellenistic epoch.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro

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

Our critic raved that “it’s an unparalleled opportunity to do a deep dive into one of the most dazzling epochs in the history of art.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 22, 2026

Glass’ subject matter varies widely in epochs and ethoses, from ancient Egypt to Walt Disney’s Hollywood.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 5, 2026

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

From BBC May 11, 2025

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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