as in magnificent
large and impressive in size, grandeur, extent, or conception
an epic plan for the revitalization of the city
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Recent Examples of epic
Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Tatis punctuated a win over Team Venezuela with a resounding home run and an epic bat flip.
—Dennis Lin, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
And even Adebayo remains in awe of joining that Most-Points-Ever-In-A-Game club, with his 83-point eruption on Tuesday placing him, in NBA annals, behind only Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point epic in 1961 and ahead of Kobe Bryant’s 81-point master class in 2006.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
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Adjective
The explosion occurred during an epic battle over building a subway under Wilshire Boulevard from downtown.
—Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Tatis punctuated a win over Team Venezuela with a resounding home run and an epic bat flip.
—Dennis Lin, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2026
Noun
Lord and Miller, working with the cinematographer Greig Fraser, avoid the conventional visual language of the prestige space epic, with its sterile surfaces and zero-gravity tracking shots.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
And even Adebayo remains in awe of joining that Most-Points-Ever-In-A-Game club, with his 83-point eruption on Tuesday placing him, in NBA annals, behind only Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point epic in 1961 and ahead of Kobe Bryant’s 81-point master class in 2006.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for epic
Adjective
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Natasha Joukovsky Considers Ahead-of-Their-Time Novels Cecilia and Evelina Cecilia—that is, Frances Burney’s magnificent second novel—is breaking my heart.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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The Sombrero Galaxy was imaged to magnificent effect by the Hubble Space Telescope — most recently to mark its 35th anniversary in space — which revealed its sweeping disk-like structure and pronounced dusty lanes shining beneath its glowing galactic core.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
14 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Excerpts from the audiocassettes of Long’s interviews are a strong element of Evans’ doc, and playful music cues underscore the humor and passion that course through this particularly American saga, along with a whole lot of pain.—
Sheri Linden,
HollywoodReporter,
12 Mar. 2026
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Despite running a mere 94 minutes, the film’s multiple threads are presented in a manner so outstretched their totality becomes dulled, as the inherent allure of the saga at large gradually wanes in energy.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
12 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Demi Moore's latest look is an ode to color—deep, sumptuous, rich color.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
13 Mar. 2026
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Documenting her and her fellow volunteers’ attentions, the book is an ode to the kind of careful, patient natural history that contemporary science practiced at its increasingly rapid pace does not encourage as much anymore.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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And the greatest expression of care comes at the very last moment, in a final, glorious moment of surreal grace at the end of the novel.—
Isle McElroy,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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So campy and kitschy and glorious.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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Having built his fame through social media and then parlayed his skills at climbing vertiginous structures, photography and drone operation into a lucrative art career — one partly built on non-fungible tokens — Wright has a narrative that’s also a quintessentially 21st-century success story.—
Leslie Felperin,
HollywoodReporter,
18 Mar. 2026
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And the narrative was, ‘The world is flat, NIL has made everyone equal.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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In Berceuse Parish, there are so many elegies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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The show, a sort of elegy for Gen X, opens with a flash-forward to July 16, 1999, the final hours of Carolyn and John.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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The experience of entering the telescope via its cat walk and being underneath the majestic dome was something out of a movie set.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Mar. 2026
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This area is home to majestic Uvalde Bigtooth Maples that turn blazing shades of orange and red in the fall, but there is plenty to see in the spring and summer as well.—
Jill Robbins,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2026
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Because the Duggars adhere to a fundamentalist fringe of evangelicalism, the liberal media are often quick to use the family’s failings as a cautionary tale about Christianity in general, and conservatives can be too quick to interpret criticism of the family as criticism of the church.—
Tiana Lowe Doescher,
The Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2026
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My 30s were a cautionary tale of bad relationship decisions.—
Jessica Radloff,
Glamour,
20 Mar. 2026
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