loom large
idiom
: to have great importance or influence
Rising tuition costs loom large in the minds of many parents.
She was a critic who loomed large in literary circles.
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Surveillance concerns also loom large, especially in environments where privacy is already compromised.
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Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
By inverting those precedents, congressional Republicans have created a bill unlike anything Washington has produced since deficit fears began to loom large in the 1990s.
—Emily Badger, New York Times, 13 June 2025
Her death and Nero’s birth loom large in ancient literature, but the specific details from some turns my stomach.
—Diana Arterian
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
While the cryptoasset landscape and policy outlook for crypto projects has definitively shifted to a more permissive stance the very same issues that were raised during 2019 loom large as Meta returns to the stablecoin marketplace.
—Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
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Anisha Sircar, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
By inverting those precedents, congressional Republicans have created a bill unlike anything Washington has produced since deficit fears began to loom large in the 1990s.
—Emily Badger, New York Times, 13 June 2025
Her death and Nero’s birth loom large in ancient literature, but the specific details from some turns my stomach.
—Diana Arterian
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
While the cryptoasset landscape and policy outlook for crypto projects has definitively shifted to a more permissive stance the very same issues that were raised during 2019 loom large as Meta returns to the stablecoin marketplace.
—Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 15 June 2025
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“Loom large.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loom%20large. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.
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