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Noun
And who could forget her stunning jumbo twists at the 2024 Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show? Larry Stansbury, Essence, 26 Jan. 2025 These bells and whistles are features of a new jumbo store format that Dick’s is opening across the country. Jemima McEvoy, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024 Following the Fed’s jumbo, 50-basis-point cut in September, mortgage rates have risen in tandem with the yield. Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2024 Fed Governor Michelle Bowman voted against the jumbo, half-point cut in September — the first dissent since 2005. Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for jumbo
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jumbo
Adjective
  • The centerpiece, called the Sun Room, featured three giant windows that offered a peerless view into the gorge and its colors of salmon, coral, saffron and blood orange.
    Tom Zoellner, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
  • According to the announcement, the Godzilla crossover series reveals that the original purpose of the Foot Clan was to protect Japan from the giant monsters known as kaiju, of whom Godzilla is the most fearsome.
    Rob Salkowitz, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
Noun
  • Download it now for the most binge-worthy celeb content, exclusive video clips, astrology updates and more! Allen, similar to Grant, described his deep passion for the ocean and hard-to-describe connection with whales.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 18 July 2025
  • Start with what stirs the soul — the iridescence of a bioluminescent reef, the sound of a whale’s song echoing across hemispheres, the eerie quiet of deep space.
    Melissa Jun Rowley, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2025
Adjective
  • As the creature lowers a gigantic foot to squash the dog, Superman swoops in to save the precious pup.
    Jen Reeder, Forbes.com, 28 July 2025
  • These few minutes with the whale sharks are the culmination of a year’s planning, a gigantic logistical effort to shadow a giant.
    Matthew Abbott, New York Times, 27 July 2025
Noun
  • The free, family-friendly event will turn the park into a prehistoric playground, complete with life-sized dinosaurs, a live volcano and a variety of interactive attractions and performances, a city news release said.
    Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2025
  • The exhibition in central Bangkok features life-size dinosaurs and other interactive elements.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • So, my ability for my flat serves not only to be coming in at 145 [mph] but also rising above his shoulders is huge.
    Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2025
  • Powering spacecraft, especially out in the dark, cold outer solar system, is a huge challenge.
    Space.com Staff, Space.com, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • The party featured a fun monster truck bouncy house slide, a mini race track and an actual car from the film.
    Jen Juneau, People.com, 29 July 2025
  • In the day, how big could the real monster dinosaurs get?
    Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
Adjective
  • At the Gault Site, north of Austin, archaeologists led by Michael Collins unearthed not only an enormous quantity of Clovis-era artifacts, but also pre-Clovis evidence that pushes the dating of Paleo-Indian arrival in Central Texas back to perhaps 20,000 years ago.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
  • Single events can have enormous importance in a game, series and season while also being single events.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • These static, profile views often depict male and female elk, sometimes with calves, and occasionally alongside other Ice Age fauna such as mammoths, woolly rhinos, and ostriches.
    Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 24 July 2025
  • This was an important clue to a developing theory that grazing megafauna—such as the extinct mammoths and mastodons that once roamed the southern Appalachians—may have played a role.
    Mike Bezemek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 July 2025

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