tectonic
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We didn’t see boards think about Bitcoin, the move to Web3, or many of these other tectonic shifts.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
Both Earth and the Moon experience tectonic forces, but they operate very differently.
From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026
“It’s going to be a glacial, tectonic thing but it will be a thing,” said Anders Schelde, chief investment officer of the Danish pension fund AkademikerPension.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
The findings provide an up-close look at how the housing market’s tectonic shifts have played out across America.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026
But the detonation creates some tectonic shift in the building’s rubble, and there is a snap followed by multiple cascades in the darkness.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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