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
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 score, in the 30th minute of the final game of World Cup qualifying in the fall of 1989, was as unlikely and unadorned as it proved to be earth-shattering.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
"It's really what we've found in their brains that's been so earth-shattering for us," she said.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2025
The only way these scientists can keep their sanity is by convincing themselves that they’re on the verge of an earth-shattering discovery.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
