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sea change
noun
- a striking change, as in appearance, often for the better.
- any major transformation or alteration.
- a transformation brought about by the sea.
sea change
noun
- a seemingly magical change, as brought about by the action of the sea
Word History and Origins
Origin of sea change1
Word History and Origins
Origin of sea change1
Example Sentences
Amazon also triggered a sea change in physical retail, accelerating the shuttering of shopping malls and stores.
One marker of a sea change is the emergence of a new vocabulary.
“You’ve seen a sea change, from when I was first elected, when there was strong animosity to any development, to a realization that we have to be able to construct housing that San Diegans can afford,” he said.
Rising health-care costsAmerica’s well-chronicled, rising health-care costs have caused a quiet sea change in the tax burden of the middle class.
Ever since Google made the announcement in January that Chrome would phase out the technology in two years, marketers, publishers, agencies, and data owners have been scrambling to prepare for this sea change.
Despite the hard work of women like Fonda, Archer said, there had been no sea-change in attitudes within the industry.
This reticence—this reserve—suits Beck's voice and personality much better than the confessional self-consciousness of Sea Change.
Its so-called predecessor Sea Change got great reviews back in 2002, but it never really hooked me.
It illustrated a deep, and swelling, sea change in American fashion: things were getting wild.
It reflects the sea change in society that is still under way.
Does crossing the sea change or annihilate the churchmanship of the missionary, or the passenger, or the emigrant?
He told her how he had suffered a sea change, and now occupied the lofty position of a god.
The old sofa had been metamorphosed—it had suffered a sea change into something new and strange, as Holly quoted afterward.
Everything in it suffers a sea-change; everything is set to the music of the winds and the waves.
It was content rather than the form which suffered sea change in the process of transmission from the white man to the black.
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