earthshaking
adjective
imperiling, challenging, or affecting basic beliefs, attitudes, relationships, etc.
earth-shattering,
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a variation of
earthshaking.
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
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
People could be forgiven for not foreseeing the earth-shattering events that were around the bend—the Depression, World War II, the birth of Elvis Presley.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
There was nothing earth-shattering or especially inspiring about it, but it was fun.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
