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seminal

[sem-uh-nl] / ˈsɛm ə nl /


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MarketWatch: Your seminal 1975 Financial Analysts Journal article, “The Loser’s Game,” argued that most professional money managers cannot beat the market.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

The seminal pop-punk album, full of romantic innocence and disarming humor, foreshadowed the rise of new wave.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

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

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

Pauling’s seminal paper on the protein helix was published in April 1951.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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