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Modern Southern Appalachia was much warmer during the Pliocene epoch, which lured prehistoric mammal species east after crossing the Bering Land Bridge.
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2025
With a few glaring homages to Jean-Luc Godard, among other nods to the epoch, the film plays more like historical pastiche than original material.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
That hydrogen provides clues to how the epoch of reionization unfolded, and other characteristics of the cosmos.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
Despite the early epoch, their stellar masses rival that of today’s Milky Way, which has 60 billion solar masses worth of stars.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
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Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2025
With a few glaring homages to Jean-Luc Godard, among other nods to the epoch, the film plays more like historical pastiche than original material.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025
That hydrogen provides clues to how the epoch of reionization unfolded, and other characteristics of the cosmos.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
Despite the early epoch, their stellar masses rival that of today’s Milky Way, which has 60 billion solar masses worth of stars.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 30 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for epoch
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According to Stathead, there have been exactly 100 players in the expansion era (since 1961) who accumulated at least 19 WAR through age 27 while playing 80 percent of their games at shortstop, second base, third base or center field.—
Chad Jennings,
New York Times,
26 Mar. 2025
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Built in the 1920s and later owned by decorator Craig Wright, the property was a palimpsest of bygone eras, its Spanish Colonial Revival shell containing the mark of many hands.—
Sam Cochran,
Architectural Digest,
26 Mar. 2025
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Rewards Offered in Oregon The March 10 death near Sisters of an adult breeding male of the Metolius pack resulted in an announcement nine days later of a $10,000 reward being sought by FSW for information that could lead to the prosecution of the person(s) responsible.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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Unsurprisingly, Jason shows up late, having instead spent the day drinking in a bar.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
30 Mar. 2025
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Coachella announced the times via social media posts; see the full lineups for both weekends on the festival’s Instagram post, below.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
6 Apr. 2025
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The total this time might be towards the higher end of that historic variance, with so many teams still involved in the race.—
Paul Taylor,
New York Times,
5 Apr. 2025
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The mobile counters displaying the time and date gravitate around the dial over a period of 59 days, gradually revealing the moon discs.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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Although the bulk of the precipitation will remain south of the Kansas City forecast area Thursday through Saturday, there will be periods of showers possible, the weather service said.—
Robert A. Cronkleton,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 2025
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Things are going to happen, but in this remarkable age of medical advances many can be treated and minimized.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2025
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By 1949, the average age of the attendees was 100.5; this reunion may have been the last Civil War reunion in Arkansas.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
5 Apr. 2025
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“Epoch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/epoch. Accessed 8 Apr. 2025.
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