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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a big watershed" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a significant turning point or event in a situation, often in discussions about history, policy, or personal experiences.
Example: "The signing of the peace treaty was a big watershed in the country's history, marking the end of decades of conflict."
Alternatives: "a major turning point" or "a significant milestone".
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"The past three weeks have been a very, very big watershed.
The other big watershed was a renewed focus on the health and welfare of his workforce.
"It is quite clear that we are looking at a big genetic watershed" during the transition from hunting and gathering to farming, Skoglund says, in which both genes and biology changed markedly.
"The big watershed was 1971," he says, when Bangladesh broke away from Pakistan.
Jake Burns of Stiff Little Fingers, the first major punk band from Northern Ireland, explained the record's impact: [T]he big watershed was the Clash album that was go out, cut your hair, stop mucking about time, y'know.
"In some ways, this is an even bigger watershed than the agency itself," argues Richard Neiman, New York state's bank regulator.
Hundreds of millions of people and much of China's industry and inland shipping depend on the Yangtze, China's biggest watershed.
The first is "Watershed," a big work about big themes: the Emancipation Proclamation, the civil-rights struggles of the sixties, apartheid in South Africa, and freedom past and present.
"That was a big part of the watershed agreement -- that we couldn't erode the tax base of the Catskills," said Ira A. Stern, director of the division of watershed lands and community planning for the city agency.
The speech – in which the UK Foreign Office had a big hand – was something of a watershed and was under-appreciated in Europe.
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