seismic shift

noun

: a great change

The discovery caused a seismic shift in public attitudes.

Examples of seismic shift in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There is a seismic shift in shopping in the works with 40 percent of younger consumers using AI to shop. —Evan Clark, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2025

Tokyo International Film Festival‘s programming director Ichiyama Shozo has been curating films since the 1990s, navigating the seismic shift from 35mm to digital while maintaining his core philosophy remains unchanged. —Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 27 Oct. 2025

If Freeman is more than a name on a rumor list, the move would mark a seismic shift in college football. —Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025

All in all, the winners in this choppy period for the office market won’t be passive buyers or those who are still casting a backward look at pre-2022 conditions; the winners will be strategic operators willing to step into the gaps created by CRE’s seismic shift. —Greg Friedman, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for seismic shift

• adrift
• airlift
• facelift
• festschrift
• forklift
• gearshift
• makeshift
• redshift
• sealift
• snowdrift
• spendthrift
• clift