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also humungous
as in huge
unusually large
I'm sleepy because I ate a humongous lunch
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Recent Examples of humongous
The retirement of future Hall of Famer Aaron Donald left a humongous hole in a unit that had to be rebuilt with first- and second-year players.
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Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Twelve helicopters are filling humongous water buckets hanging from cables and sucking seawater up through snorkels.
—Alec Luhn, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
Filtered across the main level are a humongous formal living room with a fireplace and coffered ceiling, a formal dining room, a billiards room with a wet bar, and an office space.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 7 Jan. 2025
What's especially interesting is there are points where the carnivore and herbivore tracks cross over, which means these humongous creatures may have interacted in some way at this site.
—New Atlas, 3 Jan. 2025
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Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
Twelve helicopters are filling humongous water buckets hanging from cables and sucking seawater up through snorkels.
—Alec Luhn, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
Filtered across the main level are a humongous formal living room with a fireplace and coffered ceiling, a formal dining room, a billiards room with a wet bar, and an office space.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 7 Jan. 2025
What's especially interesting is there are points where the carnivore and herbivore tracks cross over, which means these humongous creatures may have interacted in some way at this site.
—New Atlas, 3 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for humongous
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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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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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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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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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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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Leveraged and inverse ETFs give investors the opportunity to make monster bets on the stock market’s direction.—
Krysta Escobar,
CNBC,
27 Feb. 2025
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One of the biggest changes reflects the idea that these new players prefer more monster options over D&D lore.—
Rob Wieland,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 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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Additionally, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon each signed separate nuclear energy agreements late last year in anticipation of the massive energy demands of their AI plans.—
Britney Nguyen,
Quartz,
5 Mar. 2025
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Andy Harries, the storied Left Bank founder, had announced his move to Exec Chair a day prior, paving the way for Moore’s grand unveiling.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
28 Feb. 2025
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The Oscars are the grandest stage of that unbridled yearning.—
Dave Schilling,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Feb. 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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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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“Humongous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humongous. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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