Bunyanesque

Definition of Bunyanesquenext

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bunyanesque
Adjective
  • Suddenly, Amex needed a mammoth restructuring initiative, in part to offset all the lost sales.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • Victorian solution for an AI future Slated for completion in 2029, this mammoth battery is the anchor of the 20,000 215,000-sq-ft (~20,000-sq-m) Laufenburg Technology Center, a sprawling hub that will integrate AI data centers, laboratories, and offices.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 May 2026
Adjective
  • In 2019, Joe Biden vowed never to raise taxes on people earning less than $400,000 a year—a colossal sum, even in Greenwich, Connecticut, or Cupertino, California.
    Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Amid colossal spending on AI, many of these new startups are raising hundreds of millions within months of being founded.
    Kai Nicol-Schwarz, CNBC, 28 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • The state has prodigious oil reserves.
    Brian Sullivan, CNBC, 6 May 2026
  • Those gambles never lead to moral wins for the nation, or big wins or jackpots for the poor Black communities that most of our most prodigious athletic artists come from.
    Kiese Laymon, Vanity Fair, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Blue Origin, founded by rival billionaire Jeff Bezos, has commenced commercial launches of its own gargantuan reusable rocket, New Glenn—although not without major problems.
    Ramin Skibba, Scientific American, 4 May 2026
  • But for truly gargantuan stars, the models often sputter out, unable to complete their lives in the simulation.
    Paul Sutter, Space.com, 3 May 2026
Adjective
  • The massive ships that glide through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are facing extreme fuel costs as oil prices rise, often paying millions of dollars more to top off their titanic tanks.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026
  • That the precise prose of this account, and numerous other anecdotes, is written with the kind of titanic certainty that would sway a jury is expected; what’s surprising, however, is Crenshaw’s candor in revealing her vulnerability and disappointments.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 May 2026
Adjective
  • While electricity plays a central role, lightning bolts are formed and shaped by the whole physics canon — from cosmic blasts to particle physics.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
  • Three recent preprint papers that arrived within weeks of one another probe the possibility that dark matter is not a mute backdrop but an active participant in cosmic physics.
    Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 6 May 2026
Adjective
  • The painting’s gigantic walnut frame resembled a window set into a niche.
    Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • For the centerpiece installation in the Great Hall, Vogue and the event-design team of Raúl Àvila and Derek McLane created a gigantic full moon (about 26 feet in diameter).
    Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 4 May 2026
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 11 May. 2026.

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