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• s  sufficiently significant to affect the whole world
  the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering

• Firmage, however, travels quite a bit farther into la-la land, insisting that he's in contact with a hush-hush federal lab that will release world-shattering experimental data in a .
• But first: what are your predictions for the promised world-shattering twist? Ryan and Simon said that the change in the rules would involve the judges, and that it essentially .
• Joseph Stalin's actions in 1939, by contrast, were positive, surprising, world-shattering.

• earthshaking
• world-shaking

Quotes

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• Leonard Maltin in CBS News
  Most other world-shattering events have not been depicted so soon,says film historian Leonard Maltin.
• Baroness Ashton of Upholland in Times Online
  Baroness Hanham said: "I do not accept that to have a register which is more accurate, even if it reduced, in the short term, the number of people on it, would be a world-shattering disaster."