era
"What marks our epoch," he says, "is the movement of people around the world."
Most modern journalism falls short of the great polemicists of other epochs.
Thanks to modern technology a new epoch has begun.
Popular culture and a growing number of scientists use the term "Anthropocene" to label the epoch in which we are currently living.
The Holocene is the most recent of the two geological epochs of the Quaternary period.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Long periods of time
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a long haulidiom
aeon
age
be in something for the long haulidiom
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eon
era
eternity
for days, weeks, months, years, etc.
for eternity
forever and a dayidiom
good
haul
long
long-stay
month
not in a month of Sundaysidiom
time
yonks

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epoch | American Dictionary

epoch
noun[ C ]
us/ˈep·ək, -ɑk/pluralepochs
a long period of time, esp. one in which there are new advances and great change

Examples of epoch

epoch
We obtain at the 2000 epoch, a sum squared error equals to 0.001, which represents a good result.
Ice could be stable there at the present epoch if the atmospheric water content increased by only a factor of several.
In this case, these black holes are evaporating in our present epoch.
These active periods are separated by epochs of neuronal silence, called interspindle lulls.
An epoch is the time necessary to run through all training examples.
In the beginning of the colonial epoch, colonial officials had little means to carry out colonial policies.
To compare the activity across cells, we isolated eight epochs that we felt captured the major periods within each trial.
There was no linear correlation between the number of words produced in a 20 s epoch and the amount of positive formal thought disorder.
The same monitors were used in all subjects with epoch periods of 30s.
If generally speaking the ruling ideas of any epoch tend to be those of the ruling class, there have always been other histories.
The model managed to converge twice before the 1000 epoch limit, and its overall accuracy is 99.33%.
The independent and identically distributed inputs occur at time epochs that also form a stationary renewal process.
Estimates for the incremental cost and effectiveness per epoch over the full 12-month period are presented.
To allow for flexible treatment effects over time, we estimate separate coefficients for the different epochs.
Across and even within domain and epoch, one term is often preferred to the other.
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