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How to use the word EPOCH in a Sentence?

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The old era has ended, and a new epoch has begun, for many tutoring companies, a teacher’s ROI (return on investment) is the north star metric... In the future, industry players must fully understand government policies, and unify the interest of individuals, companies, and the country.

Jack Liu

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

There are many other unique and strange early dolphins and baleen whales from Oligocene aged rocks in Charleston, South Carolina, because the Oligocene epoch is the time when filter feeding and echolocation first evolved, and since marine mammal localities of that time are scarce worldwide, the fossils from Charleston offer the most complete window into the early evolution of these groups.

Robert Boessenecker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We don't accept ultimatums from anyone, it's as if I went to the The European Union and said,' I give you seven days to recognize the republic of Catalonia or if not, we will take measures.' No, no. International politics can not base itself on ultimatums. That is the epoch of imperialism or colonies.

Nicolas Maduro

Found on CNN
5 years ago

FOUNDERS QUOTES ON FOUNDING PRINCIPLES Individual Liberty Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood. – John Adams, 1765 Without liberty, law loses its nature and its name, and becomes oppression. Without law, liberty also loses its nature and its name, and becomes licentiousness. – In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world, may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its history, and the most consoling presage of its happiness. – James Madison, Essays for the National Gazette, 1792

James Wilson, Of the Study of the Law in the United States, 1790

added by anonymous
6 years ago

You're a minuscule part of this vast cosmic epoch!

Ramana Pemmaraju

added by Ramana Pemmaraju
7 years ago

I am so happy and so thrilled and I my have lost some of my composure, this was an epoch-making decision today.

Tokyo Games chief Yoshiro Mori

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The first love-letter is an epoch in love's happy season — it makes assurance doubly sure — that which has hitherto, perhaps, only found utterance in sweet and hurried words, now seems to take a more tangible existence. A love-letter is a proof of how dearly, even in absence, you are remembered.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

added by Madeleine Quinn
7 years ago

Despite their ungainly appearance, different species of glyptodonts occupied habitats as distinct as open grassland and dense woodland, all the way from Patagonia to the southern parts of the continental United States, although their disappearance has been blamed on human depredation as well as climate change, some species persisted into the early part of the modern or Holocene epoch, long after the disappearance of mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Like the loss of giant ground sloths, mastodons, and dozens of other remarkable mammalian species, the precise cause of the New World megafaunal extinctions remains uncertain.

Ross MacPhee

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's not at all epoch-making, just the kind of construction that could be done anywhere.

Fumihiko Maki

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Love for one's motherland is one of the most powerful and uplifting feelings. It manifested itself in full in the brotherly support to the people of Crimea and Sevastopol, when they resolutely decided to return home, this event will remain a very important epoch in domestic history forever.

Vladimir Putin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

This event will remain a very important epoch in domestic history forever.

Vladimir Putin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times it ws the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair we had everything before us, we had nothing before us we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.

Charles Dickens

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.

Charles Dickens

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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