epochal
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Mr. Turturro exudes the bleary exhaustion of a man nursing an epochal hangover.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
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
Illustrations from the era show Malinche, serving as translator, as a prominent figure during Cortés’ epochal meeting with Moctezuma on Nov. 8, 1519, on a causeway leading to Tenochtitlán.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2026
Ptolemaeus’s epochal influence has had the effect of making ancient astronomy seem, to us, a lot less diverse than it was.
From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro
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