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Recent Examples of enormity Three weeks after the blazes destroyed their homes, five families spoke to us about the enormity of their losses. Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2025 That’s because Pound had won the Bollingen with great fanfare, which set off an enormity of scandal and attacks on him. Corey Seymour, Vogue, 6 Feb. 2025 The player who so often can’t resist the attention that comes with the circus of his own making gets replaced with the steely assassin required to grasp the enormity of the task of taking on Alcaraz. Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025 While Constellation has been known to weather all kinds of economic and political climates, the enormity of challenges lining up against the stock is evident in its more than 16% single-session decline at one stage during Friday trading near $180. Zev Fima, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for enormity
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Noun
  • The temblor was detected just hours after a 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck near North Hollywood, California.
    Alex Sundby, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2025
  • On February 13, 2025, a magnitude 4.3 earthquake struck near Avenal, approximately six miles north-northwest of the city.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The compositions prioritize headspace for the sky to take over the frame during exterior shots, communicating Rico’s feeling of insignificance against the immensity of what burdens him.
    Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Horizons suggest the unencumbered immensity of the Midwest.
    Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Intentionally or not, these gestures and statements normalize racial hatred, which is the prologue to the kind of racial violence that led to some of humanity’s worst atrocities.
    Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 26 Feb. 2025
  • These are war crimes, and no amount of justification in the name of previous atrocities can change that reality.
    Ross Rosenfeld, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2025

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“Enormity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enormity. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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