epoch

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Kikai last erupted 7,300 years ago in the most powerful eruption of the current geological epoch, the Holocene.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

Charismatic and charming as ever, Gosling easily shoulders the job of being the only human onscreen for an epoch.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

I've been presenting television debates and radio phone-ins over five decades, stumbling from one epoch to the next.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Fundamental to Clark’s investment worldview is his conviction that “the era of capital abundance has ended” and global markets are adjusting towards a new epoch of capital scarcity.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

Sometime during the last glacial epoch, when hunter-gatherers were still living in caves, the Neanderthal tool-making mentality gave way to the Cro-Magnon urge to make images.

From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell