seminal
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Albuquerque is revisiting “Spine of the Earth,” one of her seminal pieces, for the exhibition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
Rosen had a hand in many of the seminal companies and events in the early years of the personal computer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
The copy of Harper Lee's seminal 1960 work was discovered in a box of American books given to the charity's bookshop in Portobello Road, west London.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Wiles revealed that she doesn’t have “these seminal moments where you have to go in and tell the president what he wants to do is unconstitutional or will cost lives. I don’t have that.”
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
These were always original and often influential, even seminal.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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