1
: of or relating to an epoch
2
: uniquely or highly significant : momentous
during his three epochal years in the assembly—
C. G. Bowers
C. G. Bowers
epochally
adverb
Examples of epochal in a Sentence
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Last year, two TV series, Netflix’s Transatlantic and Nat Geo’s A Small Light, illuminated the other side of the epochal struggle between Nazism and humanism, dramatizing the stories of real people who fought to save the lives of Jews and other targets of the Reich.
—TIME, 8 May 2024
But in 1895, the composer already dead, a revival took place at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, the music and scenario tweaked and with new choreography by the great Marius Petipa and his assistant Lev Ivanov (for the epochal lakeside action).
—Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
To read Axios reporter Felix Salmon’s description of it, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s annual letter to shareholders is an epochal event.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 8 Apr. 2024
The epochal elimination of the homosexuality diagnosis from the APA’s influential bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, made the front page of The New York Times and The Washington Post.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2024
These epochal events have always hovered on the edge of the historian Robert Darnton’s concerns.
—Lynn Hunt, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2024
When Russia attacked Ukraine, Scholz missed the opportunity to initiate such an epochal shift in Germany’s economic model and defense stature.
—Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
There is nothing to do with a day except to live it, a great poet wrote, and there may be nothing to do with an epochal year except to remember it.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Perhaps the most epochal illustration concerned, of all people, Barack Obama.
—Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
TIME, 8 May 2024
But in 1895, the composer already dead, a revival took place at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, the music and scenario tweaked and with new choreography by the great Marius Petipa and his assistant Lev Ivanov (for the epochal lakeside action).
—Guillermo Perez, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2024
To read Axios reporter Felix Salmon’s description of it, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s annual letter to shareholders is an epochal event.
—Noah Rothman, National Review, 8 Apr. 2024
The epochal elimination of the homosexuality diagnosis from the APA’s influential bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, made the front page of The New York Times and The Washington Post.
—Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2024
These epochal events have always hovered on the edge of the historian Robert Darnton’s concerns.
—Lynn Hunt, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2024
When Russia attacked Ukraine, Scholz missed the opportunity to initiate such an epochal shift in Germany’s economic model and defense stature.
—Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
There is nothing to do with a day except to live it, a great poet wrote, and there may be nothing to do with an epochal year except to remember it.
—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
Perhaps the most epochal illustration concerned, of all people, Barack Obama.
—Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
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“Epochal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epochal. Accessed 18 May. 2024.
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