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seminal

[sem-uh-nl] / ˈsɛm ə nl /


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In 1998 she wrote the seminal essay on official Washington’s state of mind during Ken Starr’s investigation into Bill Clinton.

From Salon Jul. 21, 2026

Or take a seminal moment of the dot-com boom: In December 1998, internet analyst Henry Blodget put an audacious price target on Amazon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

"Their listings could be seminal for the Indian markets in the way the marquee offerings of software companies became many decades ago," he adds.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2026

A co-author of a seminal research paper that kicked off the AI boom, Shazeer quit the company in 2021 to start his own company after Google refused to release a chatbot he developed.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Du Bois included in his seminal work, The Souls of Black Folk, a brilliant but haunting short story.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson




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