epochal

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Going much further back, oil prices also rocketed during the epochal crisis of World War II in the 1940s.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 20, 2026

"It feels like an epochal moment, and it also feels extraordinarily terrifying."

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

The scientists of the Manhattan Project, who helped build the bomb and then witnessed Trinity’s fireball, recognized—felt—its epochal shudder.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2025

He doesn’t just distract – he rewrites the story in real time, making the serious seem trivial, and the trivial seem epochal.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2025

The epochal confrontation between the two views of the Cosmos—Earth-centered and Sun-centered—reached a climax in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the person of a man who was, like Ptolemy, both astrologer and astronomer.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan