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
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The whip-smart, late-20th-century retelling of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most epochal teen rom-coms.
—EW.com, 13 May 2024
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
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EW.com, 13 May 2024
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
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“Epochal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epochal. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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