Bunyanesque

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bunyanesque
Adjective
  • The country is grappling with mammoth debt, a real-estate market downturn, high levels of youth unemployment, and a broad economic slowdown.
    Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • So did the dire wolf, the mammoth and the giant ground sloth.
    Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • According to Cook, Apple shareholders are not protesting the company's colossal domestic manufacturing spend.
    Julie Coleman, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And so, with these four short works, the divide between the fantastical and the real, the inside and the outside collapses, laying bare this colossal network connecting us all.
    Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The whole conceit of the 2025 season was that the veterans would hold down the fort until the prodigious roster of kids caught up to the speed, smarts, and physicality of the NFL game.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The work of accountability would be prodigious.
    Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Put simply, the gargantuan wave of capital that's been fueling the construction of data centers to meet AI computing demand isn't slowing down.
    Zev Fima, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025
  • His view aligns with ideas put forth by Gerard O’Neill, the late physicist and Princeton University professor who posited that humans should aspire to live in gargantuan space stations that orbit close to home and spin to provide simulated gravity.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 12 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Unlike the First World War, which started for no good reason and was fought for even less, the American Civil War was understood by the most clear eyed Unionists and Confederates to be, from the outset, something titanic and consequential.
    Jack Sheehan September 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Osbourne’s death has the music industry in mourning over the loss of one of its most titanic figures.
    Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
Adjective
  • Astronomers have spotted a cosmic explosion of high-energy gamma-rays unlike any ever seen before.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Get it in deep blue, silver, or a new cosmic orange.
    Chloe Albanesius, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • You may be relieved to know that this book does not involve a gigantic replica of anyone’s birth canal.
    Jamie Harrow, PEOPLE, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Royer, who worked as an architect before joining Ford 15 years ago, said the miniature clay world headquarters will be something people can use to navigate the real-life gigantic space.
    Jamie L. LaReau, Freep.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 17 Sep. 2025.

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