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as in huge
unusually large
I'm sleepy because I ate a humongous lunch
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Recent Examples of humongous
The big news with the 15 Ultra is the camera, which is once again humongous at 1-inch and can shoot incredible photos.
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Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
The big news with the 15 Ultra is the camera, which is once again humongous at 1-inch and can shoot incredible photos.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
That's a bigger battery than the one in the humongous Galaxy S25 Ultra.
—Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 7 Mar. 2025
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.
—Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
The big news with the 15 Ultra is the camera, which is once again humongous at 1-inch and can shoot incredible photos.
—Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025
That's a bigger battery than the one in the humongous Galaxy S25 Ultra.
—Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 7 Mar. 2025
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.
—Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for humongous
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Scammers convince you to take cash to a bitcoin ATM Her story highlights one huge red flag that consumers must watch out for these days — how scammers are convincing you to take cash to a crypto ATM at the local party store, gas station or grocery.—
Susan Tompor,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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The overall approach—making scientists prove why mining shouldn’t happen in specific parts of a huge area, without the data to do so—frustrated scientists.—
Christian Elliott,
Smithsonian Magazine,
21 Apr. 2025
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Volunteers stirred giant pots of steaming lentils one recent afternoon as people formed a line to receive their portions.—
Declan Walsh,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Potential Risks: An MRI machine is, at its core, a giant magnet, and therefore the highest risk potential of receiving a scan is making sure there isn’t any metal in or on your body.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
18 Apr. 2025
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The Bucks predictably got a massive game from Giannis Antetokounmpo, who scored 36 points to go with 12 rebounds, but the absence of their point guard, Lillard, was a gigantic blow.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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But seeing the slow nature of gigantic bureaucratic machines such as these, this is not enough to move beyond policy to practice.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
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But suffice to say, Snoop gets a dire diagnosis, transports to a battleground set amid giant marijuana plants, gets cozy with a mammoth marijuana bud, dies and visits Tupac, Petty pops in throughout, and Jelly Roll appears in a prison yard, among other wild occurrences.—
Althea Legaspi,
Rolling Stone,
20 Apr. 2025
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Over the span of a mammoth, 52-song setlist, the musicians and TDE labelmates traded the stage back and forth and debuted tracks from their newest releases—2024’s GNX and SOS Deluxe: Lana.—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
20 Apr. 2025
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Well, that's what some people are doing for this monster doll from China called Labubu.—
Julia Gomez,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 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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In Season 1, Cassian was part of a massive prison break and an insurrection against Imperial forces in his home of Ferrix.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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This year, the Compton Cowboys are headed to Stagecoach, the massive country music festival in Indio.—
Jasmine Desiree,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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No one knows how this grand experiment in raw geopolitical power politics will play out.—
Jonathan Swan,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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That kind of grand expectation adds pressure to what feels like an already complex decision.—
Ruthie Ackerman,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
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Saints received a tremendous pop from the crowd to begin the Stand & Deliver card.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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As a whole, the gig showed Cave’s tremendous artistic range**.—
Kory Grow,
Rolling Stone,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Humongous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humongous. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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