earth-shattering
Example Sentences
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For anyone who cares about video games as art and has bemoaned the ever-tightening corporate stranglehold over visual entertainment and its archives, Sony’s disc phaseout is an earth-shattering quake that’s not to be taken lightly.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
The actual difference in payments to major labels versus smaller artists is not that earth-shattering, and we couldn’t do it anyway unless the major labels said we could.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026
"It's really what we've found in their brains that's been so earth-shattering for us," said Dr. Sandra Weintraub, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 23, 2026
In 2022, Sereno returned with a 100-person team and 64 Nigerien guards to excavate the "earth-shattering site".
From Barron's ● Feb. 27, 2026
He has stopped working on his canvas, the painting we all thought was going to be this awesome, earth-shattering piece of art that would be auctioned for a million dollars.
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
