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world-shaking

ADJECTIVE
  1. sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
    the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering
    the contest was no world-shaking affair
    earthshaking proposals

How To Use world-shaking In A Sentence

  • How ought a neighborhood newspaper to cover a world-shaking event?
  • Strap yourselves down folks - we have some world-shaking news for you.
  • the contest was no world-shaking affair
  • Both attacks were world-shaking events and both led to war. Houston Chronicle
  • Besides, I had just discovered an even more world-shaking music.
  • Despite the world-shaking blasts of weaponry as the Americans try to root out the snipers, this is also a contest of wills in which the tension rises to a level that seems unbearable, and then rises again.
  • The key to the success of the films, as is true of Tolkien's books, is the focus on the small stories, the personal and emotional details, in the midst of world-shaking cataclysmic events.
  • It should be an amazing and world-shaking event.
  • But there's no denying it was a world-shaking event.
  • NEW YORK—Despite some world-shaking events this year, currency investors are shrugging off the risk of future exchange-rate swings, prompting skeptics to warn that the market is getting too complacent. Currency Investors: What, Me Worry?
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