as in giant
unusually large
as military blunders go, the disastrous Pickett's Charge was of Himalayan proportions
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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 -
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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The two lone wolves traverse a wasteland of vast canyons, derelict cityscapes and blazing oil fields, digitally rendered on blue screens.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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Splurge venues are everywhere and then some, proliferating like the Blob, devouring a vast share of the city’s dining dollars with their multicourse food-and-wine orgies comprised of reductions and espumas and tweezered microgreens.—
Amy Drew Thompson,
Orlando Sentinel,
7 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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Photo : Miroslav Cik A huge terrace wraps around the house, providing lots of space for alfresco dining and relaxing.—
Emma Reynolds,
Robb Report,
4 Mar. 2025
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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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The decision to remove the enormous mural near the White House comes after a U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., introduced legislation earlier this week that gave D.C. an ultimatum: either paint over the slogan or risk losing federal funding.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
8 Mar. 2025
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There are also the now-traditional summer preseason schedules of European clubs who spend a few weeks in America playing before enormous crowds before kicking off their new seasons back home.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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Much of the winter snow in 2023 and 2024 came from atmospheric rivers that brought heavy precipitation to mountainous regions.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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This mountainous region, part of the Sierra Madre Oriental, rises sharply from the valley floor, creating a landscape of deep ravines, dense forests, and extreme ecological diversity.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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Well-known for her use of out-of-the-ordinary materials over the years, like scarab wings and ancient mammoth ivory, van der Velden rose to the challenge of reinventing that most classic of stone in her own, original way.—
Kate Matthams,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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The Associated Press Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
6 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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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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“Himalayan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Himalayan. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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