How to Use epoch in a Sentence
epoch
noun- The development of the steam engine marked an important epoch in the history of industry.
- The Civil War era was an epoch in 19th-century U.S. history.
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An epoch receipt says the system has not rolled back.
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Pravir Malik,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Socolow’s keenly aware of his own place in our epoch.
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B. R. Cohen,
Longreads,
13 Jan. 2026
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What Okun couldn’t know was that this epoch was nearing its end.
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Timothy Noah,
The New Republic,
20 Sep. 2021
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That new epoch, of course, isn’t without its problems.
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Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
18 Feb. 2026
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Her thigh-high vinyl boots didn’t have the same aesthetic of the epoch.
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Rhonda Richford,
Footwear News,
25 Jan. 2026
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The spots were ubiquitous in scenes from this early epoch.
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Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
14 Jan. 2026
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The adult phase marks the longest epoch of brain evolution.
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New Atlas,
25 Nov. 2025
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My travels through the ages now returned me, for better or worse, to my own epoch.
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Bruce Dale,
National Geographic,
17 Apr. 2019
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Astronomers have studied this early epoch with telescopes on the ground and in space.
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Marina Koren,
The Atlantic,
20 Dec. 2021
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But in just over three and a half minutes, an epoch’s worth of emotion circulates.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
1 Dec. 2022
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Call it the end of the neon era or the beginning of the LED epoch.
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cleveland,
9 Feb. 2020
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The building trains you to think in epochs and extinction events, not hemlines or handwork.
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Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
30 Dec. 2025
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His was an epoch of Empire and old Britain that is, definitively, no more.
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Juliet Rieden,
Town & Country,
10 June 2019
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The Year of the Jerk may well be the start of a new epoch of unbounded behavior.
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BostonGlobe.com,
27 Sep. 2021
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Music always resonated with me and certain songs define epochs from days gone by.
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Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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Had the Earth really entered a new epoch, in the stratigraphic sense of the term?
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Elizabeth Kolbert,
The New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2024
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Temperatures were a little warmer then, so the epoch could be a good preview of a warmer Earth.
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Avery Thompson,
Popular Mechanics,
13 June 2018
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Will this epoch, the first marked indelibly by human influence, be the end of the earth’s story?
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Krista Stevens,
Longreads,
2 May 2024
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What are the qualities most needed in this epoch of the Anthropocene?
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Los Angeles Times,
7 Oct. 2019
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With the pair at the helm, the goal was to standardize the superhero universe and kick-start a new epoch for the studio.
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Los Angeles Times,
10 July 2025
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Some of us are tripping the light fantastic to bygone epochs entirely.
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Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
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This was the end of the era when everything mattered and the beginning of the epoch of cynicism.
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Masha Gessen,
The New Yorker,
15 Nov. 2021
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The researchers searched one-tenth of the entire sky visible from Earth and found just one quasar from this early epoch.
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Charles Q. Choi,
Scientific American,
6 Dec. 2017
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Climate operates on the scale of decades, centuries, millennia, and epochs.
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New Atlas,
13 Jan. 2026
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Seen through that prism, the Mistral earns its place in history as a remarkable bridge between two epic epochs.
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Basem Wasef,
Robb Report,
20 Sep. 2025
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To some in Hollywood, today’s rhetoric reflects a throwback to the epoch of the backlist decades ago.
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Peter Bart,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2025
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Diegoaelurus comes from the Eocene epoch, which stretched from 56 million to 34 million years ago.
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Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Mar. 2022
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The dawn bear died as a young adult during the Oligocene epoch, as the Antarctic glacier was growing and the globe was cooling.
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Matt Hrodey,
Discover Magazine,
22 June 2023
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