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Example sentences for: tectonic

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Susan Faludi's men are being crushed as the tectonic plates of history roil and split and mow them down.
Down in the basement is the really interesting display: an array of seismographs busily recording the movement of the vast tectonic plates deep below.
Hickman points out that married women in general tend to be very pro-incumbent, which somewhat undermines the argument that voting for Bush in 1992 and Clinton in '96 represents some sort of tectonic shift.
In geopolitics, the dour Samuel Huntington also sees tribes but predicts a tectonic "clash of civilizations."
Earthquakes are caused by the sudden release of pressure that has built up between two tectonic plates.