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seminal

[sem-uh-nl] / ˈsɛm ə nl /


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She has admitted that herself, saying, “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 ● Oct. 17, 2026

Albuquerque is revisiting “Spine of the Earth,” one of her seminal pieces, for the exhibition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 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

Gray, 82, is known for being the author of “Psychology,” a seminal college textbook first published in 1991, now in its eighth edition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 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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