earth-shattering
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This is not an earth-shattering example of the mysterious contours of human desire.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
In the 10 years before ChatGPT’s earth-shattering launch, the IGV returned 335% in total, or around 16% a year.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
That’s better than the previous ceiling of 100 employees, but hardly an earth-shattering reform.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026
To our jaded twenty-first-century ears, Charlie Christian’s solo on ‘Seven Come Eleven’ may not seem all that earth-shattering, but to musicians of the 1940s it was a green light.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
