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
To hear it from industry players, it was a lone source of support before West Coast tech industry grew into the world-shaking behemoth you know it as today.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2023
For all its prophecies of world-shaking change, crypto remains primarily the province of hobbyists, speculators and gurus.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 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
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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