seismic
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Goodspeed travels back to the 18th century to downturns in the U.S. and the United Kingdom to explain why the common narrative that one seismic shock will flip an economy on its head is wrong.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
Woods’s contributions to the game of golf are seismic, but he doesn’t need to be reminded of that for a while.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 29, 2026
The 1933 Long Beach earthquake, magnitude 6.4, killed more than a hundred people, but it also made seismic safety a requirement throughout the state.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
Monday is unlikely to bring a seismic announcement, but it will begin the final chapter of the Bazball era.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Even though everything he said was complimentary, his voice registered like a seismic shock down everyone’s spine.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
Vocabulary lists containing seismic
Brace Yourself: Earthquake Words
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Super Seismic: Words for Volcanoes and Earthquakes
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This Week in Words: November 26 - December 1, 2017
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