How to Use seismic in a Sentence

seismic

adjective
  • Seismic social changes have occurred.
  • The seismic change didn’t end there.
    — Christopher Kamrani, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2026
  • That must have been seismic even just for you.
    — Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The Vikings took a seismic risk on the first-round pick.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • The impact of this would have been seismic.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 7 June 2026
  • And does there need to be seismic change like the pitch clock in baseball?
    — Stephen Whyno, Baltimore Sun, 7 May 2025
  • And the backlash would have been seismic.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
  • This is seismic on many levels.
    — Sumeet Vaidya, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But the outcome of such a seismic event in orbit is the same.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 14 June 2024
  • The reader comes in right at the seismic shift in their friendship.
    — Danielle McNally, Marie Claire, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The past year has brought seismic changes to workplace culture.
    — Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 4 Apr. 2021
  • But if the company goes ahead with this plan, then the changes would be seismic.
    — James Vincent, The Verge, 26 June 2023
  • In that study, researchers sent seismic waves through the core of the planet.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 3 Mar. 2022
  • In a larger sense, though, Twain’s life was an epic of seismic change.
    — Danny Heitman, Christian Science Monitor, 9 May 2025
  • What to know after seismic change in college sports.
    — Ray Padilla, The Courier-Journal, 28 Aug. 2025
  • There’s little tweaks, but there are not the sort of seismic changes that need to occur.
    — Katie Palmer Reprints, STAT, 12 Jan. 2023
  • There have been two seismic shocks in the past few years — first the pandemic and now the strikes.
    — Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The reaction to the video was seismic.
    — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The pandemic has led to seismic shifts in the way people work and live.
    — Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The pandemic caused two seismic shifts to occur in the pet realm.
    — Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2021
  • But with this, the loss of Jim Burrows, the change is seismic.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 23 June 2026
  • Matter of fact, an outright upset would be less than a seismic shock.
    — Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2025
  • That’s the basic yet seismic question on a lot of people’s minds.
    — Big Think, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Some propose seismic tremors sent waves that forced the deep water upward.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Everyone seems to be getting in on the seismic moves.
    — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 24 June 2026
  • Digging up one of the last seismic stations, Calò's face falls.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 Jan. 2026
  • Could something as seismic be on the table this summer?
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 19 May 2026
  • No matter their size, earthquakes produce the same type of seismic waves.
    — Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
  • The company plans to begin seismic work this year.
    — Juan Pablo Spinetto, Mercury News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The shift could be seismic in its narrow corner of the finance market.
    — Scott Waldman, Scientific American, 28 Jan. 2021

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