as in gigantic
unusually large
a colossal statue of the town's founder
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Recent Examples of colossal
Baby colossal squid seen in its natural habitat for the first time.
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Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
The clip shows the colossal squid gliding across a backdrop of deep dark waters.
—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
And yet, this colossal level of easement doesn’t have to equate to being underdressed.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2025
The 62-page review has been in the works for months and engaged with a colossal 2,500 BBC employees and freelancers across the UK including 20 production companies that make shows for the BBC.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2025
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Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025
The clip shows the colossal squid gliding across a backdrop of deep dark waters.
—Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
And yet, this colossal level of easement doesn’t have to equate to being underdressed.
—Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 29 Apr. 2025
The 62-page review has been in the works for months and engaged with a colossal 2,500 BBC employees and freelancers across the UK including 20 production companies that make shows for the BBC.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colossal
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In the spring of 2022, Russian forces trapped a large group of Ukrainians inside a gigantic steel factory called Azovstal, in southern Ukraine.—
Simon Shuster,
Time,
16 May 2025
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What all of these cases have in common is a truly gigantic deer, and then, sadly, lots of discord within the hunting community.—
Alex Robinson,
Outdoor Life,
15 May 2025
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Tesla sales have experienced a huge international decline, leaving room for competitors to gain momentum.—
Charles Singh,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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Old Navy Cargo Pants My teen is a huge fan of Old Navy and just discovered their cargo pants, and she’s been begging for a new pair ever since.—
Jacquelyn Smith,
Parents,
15 May 2025
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With Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs, many countries had limited recourse for retaliation because the U.S. trade deficit on physical goods in nearly all nations is so enormous.—
Scott Roxborough,
HollywoodReporter,
5 May 2025
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Finding the house was an enormous challenge for McBride and locations manager Kale Murphy; initial candidates weren’t distinct enough from the Gemstones’ other residences, and the search took so long McBride nearly called HBO to request a pause in production.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
5 May 2025
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Since 2013, two giant sculptures of soaring eagles with 50-foot wingspans—one of which carried the wizard Gandalf on its back—have welcomed travelers to New Zealand’s Wellington International Airport.—
Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
13 May 2025
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Trying to wrestle the gun away from one another, the boys take shelter behind what appears to be a giant outdoor fan.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
13 May 2025
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The High Plains also get plenty of love from Hill Country wineries—the Panhandle does, after all, produce the vast majority of the grapes grown in the state.—
Amanda Ogle,
Travel + Leisure,
18 May 2025
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There are the vast arcs of the avenues, the great green slashes of parks and cemeteries, the jagged field of skyscrapers, steepled and spiked like iron filings pulled up toward the great magnet of the sky.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
18 May 2025
Adjective
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The massive undersea volcano reaches more than 3,600 feet above the seabed is located 300 miles offshore.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA Today,
17 May 2025
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Thanks to micro-influencer content and peer referrals, the beauty brand was able to build a massive, loyal following and grow into a billion-dollar business.—
Tony Pec,
Forbes.com,
16 May 2025
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Nonetheless, Schaffer’s golden opportunity comes with tremendous obstacles.—
Patrick Saunders,
Denver Post,
13 May 2025
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There is a tremendous difference between getting the two countries to step back from the brink of war and facilitating a permanent solution to an 80-year dispute.—
Lisa Curtis,
Foreign Affairs,
13 May 2025
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His goal has not been met of finding $1 trillion in federal savings from waste, fraud and abuse. Veterans Affairs Department: A new internal task force at the mammoth department wants employees to report anti-Christian bias among coworkers going back to the Biden administration.—
Alexis Simendinger,
The Hill,
24 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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“Colossal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colossal. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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