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US
/ˈɛpəkəɫ/
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ADJECTIVE
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highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era
epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill
an epoch-making discovery
How To Use epochal In A Sentence
- As with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the launching of Sputnik, epochal events can briefly change all the rules of the political game.
- The Mahabharata War was the epochal event of ancient India.
- Clement Nyirenda also remarks on how the punditry got it wrong, and finds the voting pattern for the incumbent president's win epochal: Global Voices in English » Malawi elections: Upending the pundits’ predictions
- Well, but of this God Abraham asks -- in what I must continue to call the epochal sentence in the Chosen Peoples Being the First "Arthur Davis Memorial Lecture" delivered before the Jewish Historical Society at University College on Easter-Passover Sunday, 1918/5678
- Eleven years before the epochal events in Germany, a seismic change was taking place in China
- epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill
- That Danny Whitten song is actually rather lovely, whereas the Pistols, epochal as they were in cultural terms, were pretty much just hoary old barre-chords and some gorblimey vocals.
- It does this specifically by a sentence coming up on the screen after the close of the action, saying that it took another 140 years before the epochal changes reoccurred, in the French Revolution.
- What he lacks is the charisma of an Olivier, whose epochal Coriolanus is dazzlingly evoked in two pages of Kenneth Tynan's Curtains.
- They chose their name artfully—cynically, even—appropriating the term the militants used to signify all the social and political ideals they had invested in America’s unexpected and epochal revolution. Robert Morris