1
: of or relating to an epoch
2
: uniquely or highly significant : momentous
… during his three epochal years in the Assembly.—
C. G. Bowers
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epochally
adverb
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In a city willing to displace a community garden or a newsstand to claw back a few extra feet, the Armory’s yawning, epochal emptiness seems like poking through your medicine cabinet and finding an alternate universe behind it.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Feb. 2026
This game paired two epochal running backs and 2000s MVPs, but neither found much room.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2026
Illustrations from the era show Malinche, serving as translator, as a central participant in Cortés’ epochal meeting with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma on Nov. 8, 1519, on a causeway leading to Tenochtitlán.
—Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026
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.
—James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Jan. 2026
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 10 Feb. 2026
This game paired two epochal running backs and 2000s MVPs, but neither found much room.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2026
Illustrations from the era show Malinche, serving as translator, as a central participant in Cortés’ epochal meeting with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma on Nov. 8, 1519, on a causeway leading to Tenochtitlán.
—Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2026
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.
—James Mercadante, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Jan. 2026
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“Epochal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/epochal. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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