earth-shattering
Example Sentences
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In 2022, Sereno returned with a 100-person team and 64 Nigerien guards to excavate the "earth-shattering site".
From Barron's • Feb. 27, 2026
That’s better than the previous ceiling of 100 employees, but hardly an earth-shattering reform.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
Analysts have estimated the US has purchased as much as $2bn worth of pesos so far - hardly an earth-shattering figure.
From BBC • Oct. 30, 2025
There’s no single, massive, earth-shattering crash; instead, there are years of frustration, and the loss of years that you can never get back.
From MarketWatch • Oct. 23, 2025
To our jaded twenty-first-century ears, Charlie Christian’s solo on ‘Seven Come Eleven’ may not seem all that earth-shattering, but to musicians of the 1940s it was a green light.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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