historic
Example Sentences
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I was filled with the same hope I had as a pre-teen watching Apollo 11 blast off for the historic moon landing.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026
Other doors were sealed, it added, "to prevent excessive permeability of the historic building's spaces - structures dating back to the 1500s - considering their changed functions and the evolving international context".
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Today it is in the Library of Congress, with its bottom third torn off, demonstrating that the first copies of the Declaration were made for immediate use rather than historic preservation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
The involvement of Amazon diversifies OpenAI’s hardware and cloud-computing resources from its historic relationship with Microsoft.
From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026
Built in 1929 by the Daughters of the American Revolution, it is a grand, historic venue, but one that I never liked for that purpose because it was just a rented space; it wasn’t theirs.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.