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The partnership between Wicked and the Olympics marks a full-circle moment, as both Erivo and Grande attended the Summer Games in 2024 as part of their mammoth press cycle for the first film.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
6 Nov. 2025 -
Four batters later, Ohtani exited the mound after allowing Bichette’s mammoth three-run homer.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 2025
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Subtle dark patches on the lunar surface betray the presence of colossal basaltic plains, where lava flows coated vast swathes of Earth's natural satellite, before solidifying in the extreme environment of space.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
5 Jan. 2026
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The wreck of a colossal oil barge is home to some of the bay's most stunning marine life.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
4 Jan. 2026
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Whatever that yields, Ward remains a prodigious and workmanlike subterranean rock figure.—
Aaron Davis,
Sacbee.com,
2 Jan. 2026
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The Chopped spinoff ran for nine seasons between 2015 and 2019, and, in keeping with the franchise, features prodigious, young chefs making inventive meals from mystery ingredients.—
Ilana Gordon,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Dec. 2025
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But there is one bright spot — rather, one bright gargantuan screen — looking back on the year in moviegoing.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
7 Jan. 2026
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As early as 1946, Wolfgang Pauli realized that an infinite or at least gargantuan amount of zero-point energy should create a gravitational field powerful enough to explode the universe.—
George Musser,
Quanta Magazine,
5 Jan. 2026
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The Americans finished second, but had two titanic clashes with MacKinnon and the Canadians.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
22 Dec. 2025
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Dan Sullivan is vulnerable, and a race would be titanic for Mary Peltola.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Oct. 2025
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Muons allow scientists to infer the energy, mass, and direction of the cosmic rays emitted by these cosmic events.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Jan. 2026
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If an asteroid is spinning above this limit and is fairly large, then it must be made of stronger cosmic material.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
8 Jan. 2026
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There’s also a massive leg lumbering in the distance which could be a Sentinel, the gigantic, mutant-hunting robots that are some of X-Men’s most iconic villains.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
6 Jan. 2026
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Chaplin holds many vestiges of its former ownership, from an old saw mill and furnace from when Chaplin was making his films, to his footsteps, to a gigantic set of muppet eyes overlooking the soundstage room.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Jan. 2026
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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
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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 9 Jan. 2026.
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