watershed
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Rosen introduced Jobs and Apple to people at Morgan Stanley, and the company took Apple’s stock public in December of 1980, a watershed moment for the personal computer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
That it’s taken this long to reach what could be a watershed moment speaks volumes about how every passing day furthers humanity’s desensitization.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2026
The thousands of square miles of mountain watershed around us, the San Gabriels and the San Bernardinos, are as steep as roller coasters, and the rain funnels off them in tumults.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
For a short time in the summer of 2023, it seemed as if Haim's under-20 side might offer a watershed moment of unity and co-existence.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
They slogged all day down the southfacing slope of the watershed.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
Addressing common criticisms, he pledged to keep electricity prices low by building its own energy-generating infrastructure wherever Meta invests and to restore more water than it uses in the watersheds it operates by 2030.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026
When exploring the watersheds east of Cuzco, Peru, he writes, Miller was “overawed by the tropical forest canopy stretching to infinity before him.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Large watersheds are far more common on Earth than on Mars.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025
“Building the snowpack on hydrated watersheds will help us avoid losing potential spring runoff to dry soils later in the season,” Anderson wrote in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2025
Such places, the watersheds of the great coniferous forests of spruce and balsam, of hemlock and pine, provide the kind of spawning grounds that salmon must have in order to survive.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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