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Think of home runs in baseball, and the fan’s mind races to the mammoth distances a ball can fly when slugged right on the nose, or a history-making chase that captivates a nation.—
Dan Gelston,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Apr. 2025 -
Two days later, on September 10, at the mammoth Royal Albert Hall in London, Bernstein and the orchestra played the work yet again.—
David Denby,
The Atlantic,
1 Apr. 2025
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Tribe also added a fan zone to its band, allowing revelers to cool down under colossal fans, and a beer bus serving draft beer and plenty of laughs.—
Baz Dreisinger,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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One of the biggest moves came just this week, when Trump imposed a colossal set of new tariffs on America’s trading partners.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
4 Apr. 2025
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Considering his prodigious size (6-4, 313), Harmon likely locked himself in as a first-rounder by running a 4.95 40-yard dash with a 1.74 10-yard split in Indy.—
Eddie Brown,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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Besides that prodigious scientific output, Hawking was a prolific science communicator.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
19 Mar. 2025
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The March 28 event was an especially gargantuan rupture along one specific schism.—
Robin George Andrews,
Scientific American,
28 Mar. 2025
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Last year, for a 230-foot custom yacht in build, the client wanted bespoke mattresses measuring a gargantuan nine feet by nine feet.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
27 Mar. 2025
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There’s no way a titanic freshman talent like Queen sticks around for more than a year.—
Childs Walker,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Mar. 2025
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Pitino's second game could come against Arkansas and Calipari in what would be a titanic matchup between two of the game's biggest coaching names.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 Mar. 2025
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Blue Origin, which Bezos started in 2000, has been offering the cosmic joyrides to celebrities and other paying customers since its New Shepard spacecraft began crewed launches in 2021.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 2025
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Unfortunately, no cosmic map tells you where to find this intergalactic big bang boom.—
Neil Senturia,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 Apr. 2025
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Goodbye millions of programmers, hello gigantic business savings.—
Gil Press,
Forbes.com,
30 Mar. 2025
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But Stanford is a rare school where even assistant coaches leaving doesn’t usually have a gigantic impact on recruiting.—
Jon Wilner,
Mercury News,
28 Mar. 2025
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The five-story Osaka Castle, a recreation of the original keep (which was destroyed on several occasions), is built on solid cyclopean foundations, with mint green roof tiles and golden accoutrements that bear striking similarities with Nagoya Castle.—
CNN,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2022
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The wall was built with a range of construction techniques, including cyclopean masonry.—
Isis Davis-Marks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Aug. 2021
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“Bunyanesque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Bunyanesque. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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