seismic
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Fiji will face reigning champions Australia next, aiming to go one better than their women's team and cause a seismic upset.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Heaton: Those seismic changes are such a strange thing to go through.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
The case against Manchester City had been building for nearly a decade before the seismic news finally landed this week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Carla Lockhart, a local MP from the pro-British Democratic Unionist Party, called the appeal overturn "seismic" and said residents had nothing to fear.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
I had seen the earth tremble, felt the preliminary shock; now I waited for the seismic event that would transform the landscape.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
Vocabulary lists containing seismic
Brace Yourself: Earthquake Words
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Super Seismic: Words for Volcanoes and Earthquakes
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