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noun

epoch

a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

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Six example sentences with epoch, each labelled with its topic.

  • The fall of the wall opened an epoch in which borders across the continent were redrawn within a decade.

    History

  • Unix timekeeping counts seconds from an epoch set at midnight on the first of January, 1970.

    Technology

  • Historians of ideas treat the Enlightenment as an epoch whose questions still shape how universities argue today.

    Philosophy

  • Geologists debate whether human activity has opened a new epoch, marked by plastic and concrete in the rock record.

    Science

  • The arrival of electric amplification began an epoch in which a trio could fill a hall once reserved for orchestras.

    Music

  • The three-point epoch began when analysts proved that a long shot at thirty-five percent beats a mid-range one at forty.

    Basketball

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