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epochal

[ep-uh-kuhl, ee-po-] / ˈɛp ə kəl, ˈi pɒ- /




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These rankings help focus on the fact that what we’re experiencing now is generationally, almost on an epochal level, different.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

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

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




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