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viewquakes

viewquakes is the plural of viewquake.

Meaning of viewquake

Noun

viewquake (plural viewquakes)

  1. (informal) A sudden drastic shift in someone's view on the world or a particular subject.
    • This summer, though, one of Hanson's "viewquakes," as he likes to call them, became a genuine national sensation. The only problem was, everybody hated it. Hanson's brainchild was roundly condemned by several U.S. Senators, derided by the likes of Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and...2003 September 15, Jeremy Kahn, “The Man Who Would Have Us Bet On Terrorism—Not To Mention Discard Democracy And Cryogenically Freeze Our Heads—May Have A Point (About The Betting, We Mean)”, in...

Questions about viewquakes

What is viewquakes the plural of?
Viewquakes is the plural of viewquake.

Words near viewquakes in the dictionary

  1. viewport
  2. viewported
  3. viewporting
  4. viewports
  5. viewquake
  6. viewquakes
  7. views
  8. views from nowhere
  9. views of frankpledge
  10. views someone's etchings
  11. viewscape

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