seminal
Example Sentences
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I know that “Hamlet” is such a seminal text in both your personal life and in your career.
From Los Angeles Times
Reiner’s seminal film “When Harry Met Sally” is full of them — beginnings and endings, false starts and full stops.
From Salon
They do discourage unnecessary treatments, as a seminal Rand Corp. study found in 1981.
From Los Angeles Times
Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.
This is also how she wrote her seminal book The Years, a collective history of the post-war generation.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
