world-shaking
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of world-shaking
First recorded in 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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The programme team agreed, suggesting a raft of world-shaking innovations from hologram surgery to space junk gel.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2024
Considering that crypto was supposed to be a world-shaking innovation, a revolutionary paradigm that was going to gut-renovate the world’s archaic payments systems, it’s surprising how little the industry’s ongoing meltdown has mattered.
From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2022
The camera abandons its rigid stance and moves in close, as if to suggest that the very act of remembering, and of loving the one you remember, can be a gently world-shaking act.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2022
Spanning his entire life, from his childhood troubles to his early career and eventual world-shaking fame, the interview shows us the late rapper in many different modes.
From Slate • May 27, 2021
I have further established, at least to my own satisfaction, that those states with the shortest histories and the least world-shaking events have the most historical markers.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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