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
From a trade perspective, 2026 would probably go down in history books as an epochal year for India.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
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
To their colleagues, Rutherford and Lawrence would be known as “the two Ernests,” and their work would bookend an epochal quest for knowledge of the natural world.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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