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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

It had been just over a week ago, but for Hazel it felt like an epoch away.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

Disney Chairman James Gorman said in an interview that Iger’s nearly 20 years in power is framed by two epochs: “Bob 1” and “Bob 2.”

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 4, 2026

It’s an unparalleled opportunity to do a deep dive into one of the most dazzling epochs in the history of art and, at just over 70 paintings, one that is perfectly scaled.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 24, 2026

"The low metallicity environment, meaning the reduced abundance of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, is interesting because it's similar to galaxies at earlier cosmological epochs," Sewilo explained.

From Science Daily Nov. 12, 2025

In exploring the pull between love and liquid assets, Song cleverly acknowledges how we’ve been facing this internal war for epochs.

From Salon Jun. 14, 2025

Also, all this changes from textbook to textbook and from person to person, so that some authorities describe seven recent epochs, while others are content with four.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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