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seminally
adverb
uk /ˈsem.ɪ.nəl.i/ us /ˈsem.ə.nəl.i/
in a way that contains important new ideas and that has a great influence on later work:
Walter Benjamin's writings are viewed as seminally important because no other writer at that time was talking about art in the age of the reproduced image.
The science of criminal forensics changed seminally when DNA analysis began to be used as evidence for connecting suspects to a crime scene.
The meeting between the two world leaders would seminally affect the course of history.
Her research played a seminally critical role in changing how we understand and talk about mental health.
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