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seminal

[sem-uh-nl] / ˈsɛm ə nl /


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The prostate sits just below the bladder and has a vital role in male anatomy as it helps make part of the seminal fluid and can affect the flow of urine.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

She recalled first meeting the artist in her Koreatown apartment in the early 1990s when she saw portraits that were featured in Opie’s seminal series “Being and Having.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

The “divisive matter of race,” the authors write, “which the founding fathers had tried to sidestep, would emerge as the seminal issue during the next fifty years.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

That’s the implication of a seminal study, entitled “Bubbles for Fama,” which challenges University of Chicago professor Eugene Fama’s famous claim that bubbles cannot be identified in advance.

From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026

Considering the frequency with which they turn up at seminal events in eighteenth-century science, remarkably little is known about either man.

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




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