Bunyanesque

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bunyanesque
Adjective
  • 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
Adjective
  • The sibling filmmaking duo spent most of the 2010s making a colossal two-part movie adaptation of King’s 1,138-page horror opus about a shapeshifting clown who terrorizes the small town of Derry, Maine.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Filler shots of chauffeurs, champagne and colossal walk-in closets with pristine designer clobber glistening and gleaming from glass shelves centred around trays and trays of priceless jewels assault the viewer’s senses between almost every scene.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Overseeing two teams, at two very different spaces, feeds Sohm’s prodigious ambition.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Both young men rapidly showed prodigious potential.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • Large SUVs and minivans aren't just gas-powered anymore The days of gargantuan SUVs and minivans solely being powered by gas-guzzling massive engines are over.
    Charles Singh, Nashville Tennessean, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Outside of his obvious name recognition, Moore will have a gargantuan cash advantage over Barr.
    Ross O'Keefe, The Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • That would be Thomas Paine, the man credited with turning the American Revolution from a complicated Colonial fracas into a titanic struggle for the soul of liberty itself.
    Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
  • From the humble red dwarfs to the titanic supergiants, stars come in a dazzling array of sizes, colors, and lifespans.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The plot revolves around a rare cosmic event when three significant nights – Chaitra Amavasya, Chaitra Purnima, and Baishakhi Amavasya – occur close together, awakening Trighori, a dark and destructive force rooted in folklore.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Scaling the experimental findings up to cosmic distances suggests that beam-plasma instabilities are not strong enough to explain the absence of the GeV gamma rays.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
  • But their collective decline from era-changing talents, who, in the case of Zverev and Medvedev, forced style changes across the tour with their combination of gigantic serves and elite movement and defense, illustrates how far Sinner and Alcaraz have pulled away.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Getting that pilot picked up is another gigantic win that is getting rarer and rarer.
    Senior Editor, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 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 15 Nov. 2025.

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