sea change
Example Sentences
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Indeed, Powell’s Sunday night statement on the DOJ probe was a sea change for the Fed chair.
From MarketWatch
The result was “a sea change in the economics of the malpractice plaintiffs’ bar,” Rand found, with cases where the judgment cap would cut too deeply into attorney fees getting short shrift.
From Los Angeles Times
The Inspector General’s Office is now expected to undergo a sea change with the retirement of the only leader it has ever had.
From Los Angeles Times
Even beyond this “perfect storm,” though, Whipp sees a sea change afoot.
From Los Angeles Times
The new system would represent a sea change, allowing law enforcement to request enormous swaths of confidential data in bulk through an automated, computerized process.
From Salon
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