as in gigantic
unusually large
a colossal statue of the town's founder
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Recent Examples of colossal
Modeling their organization after the colossal trials held in Paris after devastating terrorist attacks in France in 2015 and in 2016, the local court authorities have made space for hundreds of people attending the trial.
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Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
The physical and psychological toll from three years of non-stop fighting has been colossal for the Ukrainian men and women defending their country on the frontlines.
—Ihor N. Stelmach, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2025
This wine, one of six prestige cuvées Krug produces, is a master class in crafting Champagne—and the new building’s soaring wood ceilings and colossal plate-glass windows provide an apt setting for its development.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2025
The colossal wave of downsizing in the last few years is dividing the workplace in two, between the leavers and the survivors.
—Alyson Meister, Harvard Business Review, 7 Feb. 2025
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Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
The physical and psychological toll from three years of non-stop fighting has been colossal for the Ukrainian men and women defending their country on the frontlines.
—Ihor N. Stelmach, Hartford Courant, 22 Feb. 2025
This wine, one of six prestige cuvées Krug produces, is a master class in crafting Champagne—and the new building’s soaring wood ceilings and colossal plate-glass windows provide an apt setting for its development.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 22 Feb. 2025
The colossal wave of downsizing in the last few years is dividing the workplace in two, between the leavers and the survivors.
—Alyson Meister, Harvard Business Review, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colossal
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Acoustic Sounds occupies a hodgepodge of squat industrial buildings in Salina, a city of about 50,000 near the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states, where grain elevators and a gigantic frozen pizza plant jut out from the flat plains landscape.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
7 Mar. 2025
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Some knobby with new growth, some short or gigantic, some suffering or shrunken, some reaching over paths and roads.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
5 Mar. 2025
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Ensuring a few words wouldn’t spark a huge conflagration that could be splashed across social media, Steph Curry qualified his thought.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Mar. 2025
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For Alice, the success of learning how to use Google was a huge confidence builder.—
Carolyn Rosenblatt,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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The decision to remove the enormous mural near the White House comes after a U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., introduced legislation earlier this week that gave D.C. an ultimatum: either paint over the slogan or risk losing federal funding.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
8 Mar. 2025
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There are also the now-traditional summer preseason schedules of European clubs who spend a few weeks in America playing before enormous crowds before kicking off their new seasons back home.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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There are spells, curses, vendettas, a twist villain, giant dragons who turn into humanoid warriors and many other creatures populating the world of this gargantuan feat of eye-popping computer animation.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2025
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In a recent report on the giant theater chain Cinemark, the research firm MoffettNathanson started with a look at the continuing dismal state of theatrical exhibition.—
David Bloom,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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What to Do Sure, wine tasting and farm-to-table dining is why many travelers come to the Willamette Valley to begin with, but its vast beauty shouldn't be wasted.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
7 Mar. 2025
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The two lone wolves traverse a wasteland of vast canyons, derelict cityscapes and blazing oil fields, digitally rendered on blue screens.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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Paying the high acquisition cost to get him would be a massive risk.—
Peter Baugh,
The Athletic,
6 Mar. 2025
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This is because doubling processing resources allows for a massive increase in memory bandwidth and capacity.—
Joe Osborne,
PCMAG,
5 Mar. 2025
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Of course, Cena vs. Rhodes sounds like a tremendous WrestleMania main event on paper, too, a bout that WWE fans would be easily invested in given how popular Cena and Rhodes have been at their peaks.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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This is a time of tremendous grief and pain for those who knew and loved him.—
Caroline Frost,
Deadline,
2 Mar. 2025
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The film, which has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards, centers on the efforts of fictional protagonist László Tóth to realize a mammoth, bunkerlike, concrete structure that will house a community center in Pennsylvania.—
Michael Allen,
The Conversation,
27 Feb. 2025
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Like Amazon, which used its perch in e-commerce to build a powerhouse cloud computing business, Walmart has taken advantage of its mammoth retail base to grow with e-commerce, add on an advertising business and collect more dollars from membership programs.—
Evan Clark,
WWD,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Colossal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colossal. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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