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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There may not be some earth-shattering moment where AI either goes awry and causes chaos or suddenly solves the world’s most intractable problems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
David Kring of the Lunar and Planetary Institute told AFP he is not expecting any earth-shattering discoveries because of the multiple lunar probes and high-resolution images of the Moon taken since the Apollo missions.
From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026
Next thing, we were all driving into town and they were so quiet and tense it just seemed like it was not a good time to speak, let alone talk about my groundbreaking, earth-shattering invention.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
