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- adverb In an
earthshaking manner.
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Examples
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Either Mitchell's love for Madeleine was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken, and the emotion he felt for Madeleine...was only a perverted form of self-love.
Ilana Teitelbaum: Please, Just Get Married Already: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Ilana Teitelbaum 2011
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* Lukewarm Tea: E.J. Dionne keeps hitting the crucial point that the Tea Party is really not the novel, earthshakingly massive and historically significant political movement that some commentators keep claiming it is.
Happy Hour Roundup Greg Sargent 2010
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Either Mitchell's love for Madeleine was pure and true and earthshakingly significant; or he was addicted to feeling forlorn, he liked being heartbroken, and the emotion he felt for Madeleine...was only a perverted form of self-love.
Ilana Teitelbaum: Please, Just Get Married Already: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Ilana Teitelbaum 2011
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I mean, Lion, you have to be aware that there is an earthshakingly valid reason why we view you as being a malicious idiot.
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To explore it fully, Premier Wen Jiabao dispatched a special envoy with a reputation for earthshakingly ambitious ideas.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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To explore it fully, Premier Wen Jiabao dispatched a special envoy with a reputation for earthshakingly ambitious ideas.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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To explore it fully, Premier Wen Jiabao dispatched a special envoy with a reputation for earthshakingly ambitious ideas.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Rarely do the skies open, raining down earthshakingly clear communications.
Russell Bishop: 3 Keys To Finding Your Source Of Inspiration 2009
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But I am, as always, earthshakingly proud of her new skill, even though, like crawling, walking, running, climbing, and playing the tin-whistle, it makes my job more difficult tin-whistle is a particularly dangerous skill in the hands of an energetic toddler without respiratory issues.
The Holiday: Centreparcs Longleat ailbhe 2007
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"Ms. Dewey" is earthshakingly, embarrassingly lame.
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