Bunyanesque

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bunyanesque
Adjective
  • Over the span of a mammoth, 52-song setlist, the musicians and TDE labelmates traded the stage back and forth and debuted tracks from their newest releases—2024’s GNX and SOS Deluxe: Lana.
    Walden Green, Pitchfork, 20 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • That’s why one or a few working alone invariably produce so little, while myriad workers working together leads to prodigious amounts of production.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Still, Cornyn, who has trounced past challengers, is a prodigious fundraiser and wields widespread influence as a senior senator.
    Kayla Guo, ProPublica, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Append to this figure the $13 trillion in disposable income that is believed to encompass the disability community and their allies, and a gargantuan market opportunity reveals itself.
    Gus Alexiou, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025
  • In a stunning reversal, that gargantuan mammal had caught me.
    Nina E. Cerfolio, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The 21-year-old cited Novak Djokovic’s titanic Olympic victory over Alcaraz as the template to succeed during a difficult start to the final.
    Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • The conceptual challenge this kind of preparation poses, however, is different from what would be required to prepare for a titanic confrontation between superpowers.
    Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Its serious tone and fantastic sci-fi episodes of derelict spacecraft, cosmic viruses, and exotic aliens were a revelation for its time.
    Jeff Spry, Space.com, 1 May 2025
  • Stars and planets are born inside swirling clouds of cosmic gas and dust that are brimming with hydrogen and other molecular ingredients.
    Katrina Miller, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But seeing the slow nature of gigantic bureaucratic machines such as these, this is not enough to move beyond policy to practice.
    Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The Bucks predictably got a massive game from Giannis Antetokounmpo, who scored 36 points to go with 12 rebounds, but the absence of their point guard, Lillard, was a gigantic blow.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 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 4 May. 2025.

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