How to Use the course of history in a Sentence

the course of history

noun phrase
  • Their meeting in 1969 was an event that changed the course of history.
    Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Bones worries that this might change the course of history.
    Jennifer Ouellette and Sean M. Carroll, Ars Technica, 24 Nov. 2023
  • But the film isn’t all about the battles that determined the course of history.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In the latest film, Jones, played by the 80-year-old Ford, races to retrieve an artifact that can change the course of history.
    Caelyn Pender, Fortune, 6 July 2023
  • So did this incident have anything to do with the course of history?
    Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 July 2023
  • Of course, that amount of time has changed significantly over the course of history.
    Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The bulk of the three-hour-plus movie, however, deals with the use of science to perfect a killing machine, and how said invention will change the course of history.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 22 July 2023
  • All for good reason: Even a little political persuasion in the next year could change the course of history.
    Colin Marshall, The Conversation, 1 May 2023
  • But a small piece of malicious computer code changed the course of history when it was uploaded to the aliens’ computer system the next day.
    IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2023
  • Over the course of history, too few technologists have really grappled with this fact.
    Mustafa Suleyman, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Yet their grandfather hopes to recruit them to the family business of changing the course of history through committing atrocities like the death of Princess Diana and 9/11.
    William Earl, Variety, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Again and again, Pathogenesis suggests that the course of history has less to do with our own volition and more to do with the ways in which different diseases fared in different climates.
    Colin Dickey, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
  • Cryptography, the technology of keeping secrets, has changed the course of history, from the rise and fall of empires, such as the breaking of the Enigma machine in the Second World War, to the development of digital currencies.
    Markus Pflitsch, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • These digital connections had real-world implications that changed the course of history.
    Jeffrey Edell, Rolling Stone, 8 June 2023
  • Through their determination, ordinary Cubans seeking to reach American shores also shaped the course of history.
    Susan Eva Eckstein, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Her unwavering dedication to justice and equality shaped the course of history.
    Olivia Wakim, ajc, 30 June 2023
  • Centered around patriarch Rupert Murdoch and his children, the podcast spotlights the deep rifts and rivalries among a family whose power has grown to influence governments and effectively change the course of history.
    Katcy Stephan, Variety, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Over the course of history, Michigan has been home to hundreds of newspaper publications and today the Michigan Press Association stands more than 170 members strong, not including online-only and college publications.
    Detroit Free Press, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Advertisement The public teems at these unscripted remarks because the justices occupy a curious stratum in the country’s political pyramid, able to change the course of history with their pens but accountable, really, only to themselves.
    Jesús Rodríguez, Washington Post, 23 June 2023
  • Instead, the men are highlighted in their full and colorful humanity as revolutionaries, fathers and husbands with extraordinary but differing visions that would change the course of history.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The sum effect is just as engaging — only rather than exciting faith in the individual’s ability to generate change, the course of history here shows individuality ground under by a seemingly all-powerful state.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 May 2023
  • Throughout the course of history, artist communities have gathered organically.
    Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2024

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