watershed
Example Sentences
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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
The last substantial changes to the plan date to 1995 for much of the watershed.
From Los Angeles Times
It ignored watershed events of the Washington and John Adams presidencies, focusing almost exclusively on slavery.
Still, a watershed moment where Europe moves away from the U.S. hasn’t happened yet, said Pieter Wezeman, whose think tank, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, analyzes data on military spending.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
