Bunyanesque

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bunyanesque
Adjective
  • Related article Scientists created a ‘woolly mouse’ with mammoth traits.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 14 June 2025
  • The young adults enjoyed a juicy burger, a mammoth chicken pesto sandwich and the porketta sandwich topped with spicy giardinera, which is one of my favorite sandwiches in the Twin Cities.
    Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 12 June 2025
Adjective
  • Around one-third of the world’s fish stocks are overfished, including those in Southeast Asia, where China operates a colossal fishing operation.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 June 2025
  • In early 2025, the company made a breakthrough with the colossal woolly mouse, sharing parts of the woolly mammoth’s DNA and proving the scientists’ ability to recreate complex genetic combinations that took nature millions of years to create.
    Emma Kershaw, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • Echo Valley is the perfect match for someone of Moore’s prodigious talents, a role requiring physicality, strong emotions and belief this is a woman with more than one trick up her sleeve to survive and keep what is left of her family together.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 6 June 2025
  • Go north to Nashville, up east towards the plush and twanging Appalachians, probably swing over the dust-blowing Southwest, and likely other directions yet to be uncovered by the prodigious maven.
    Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 1 June 2025
Adjective
  • New York Yankees superstar Aaron Judge tested the limits of Kauffman Stadium with a gargantuan blast in the team’s 10-2 win over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday.
    Ryan Canfield, FOXNews.com, 11 June 2025
  • That dish is clever, for sure, but it’s served in an oddly gargantuan portion, and its playful clash of textures and temperatures wears out its welcome after a bite or two.
    Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Adjective
  • Plenty of ports round out the package, and right now HP is offering a titanic 61% price drop.
    K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 27 May 2025
  • That means its origin must be extragalactic, perhaps created in the violence of a star exploding and producing a gamma-ray burst, or a supermassive black hole ripping a star or gas cloud to shreds with its titanic gravitational tidal forces.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • Since just 10% of early black holes are actively eating gas and dust, extreme nuclear transients are a different way to find black holes across vast cosmic distances.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 6 June 2025
  • Yet there are regions deep within the cosmic voids where not even dark matter penetrates.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • Reid Neumann, the director of marketing for GPS Hospitality, handed Baker a gigantic check.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2025
  • Joe gives El the location where Emery is going to seal a gigantic drug deal the next day.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • The five-story Osaka Castle, a recreation of the original keep (which was destroyed on several occasions), is built on solid cyclopean foundations, with mint green roof tiles and golden accoutrements that bear striking similarities with Nagoya Castle.
    CNN, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The wall was built with a range of construction techniques, including cyclopean masonry.
    Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
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“Bunyanesque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Bunyanesque. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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