watershed
Example Sentences
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That would be a watershed for the European Union, which even in increasingly protectionist times has steered clear of local-content rules.
Those decisions could mark a watershed moment for a country where the government’s ability to deliver basic services has become so limited that private firms have taken over many basic civic functions.
The states also disagree on how much water should be released from dams in the upper watershed to prevent the river’s two largest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, from falling to perilously low levels.
From Los Angeles Times
Still, the full-scale invasion was a watershed moment.
From BBC
“It’s kind of a startlingly bad picture where virtually all major western watersheds are doing very poorly,” Swain said in a livestreamed discussion of the western snow outlook.
From Los Angeles Times
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