world-shaking

[ wurld-shey-king ]

/ ˈwɜrldˌʃeɪ kɪŋ /

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adjective

of sufficient size or importance to affect the entire world: the world-shaking effects of an international clash.

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Origin of world-shaking

First recorded in 1590–1600

Words nearby world-shaking

world-renowned, World Savior, World Series, world's fair, world-shaker, world-shaking, world's oldest profession, world soul, world spirit, World Trade Center, World Trade Organization

How to use world-shaking in a sentence

The world that Black Dynamite lives in is not the most PC place to be in.
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Have a look at this telling research from Pew on blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world.
In Defense of Blasphemy|Michael Tomasky|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Allegations of transphobia are not new in the world of gay online dating.
Grindr’s Trans Dating Problem|David Levesley|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.
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Editorial and political cartoon pages from throughout the world almost unanimously came to the same conclusion.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
All over the world the just claims of organized labor are intermingled with the underground conspiracy of social revolution.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
That it is a reasonable and proper thing to ask our statesmen and politicians: what is going to happen to the world?
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock

British Dictionary definitions for world-shaking

world-shaking

adjective

of enormous significance; momentous

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