Bunyanesque

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Adjective
  • The mammoth rock wall rises 3,000 feet above a meadow below.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Playing catch-up from the very start of a regulation set is a mammoth task to overcome, though.
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • What happened from there led to a colossal collapse.
    Omar Kelly Updated October 6, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Buffett will remain chairman at Berkshire and will still be involved in deciding how to spend the conglomerate’s colossal pile of more than $344 billion cash.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Inner Nature, prodigious guitar architect Adrian Bellue, jazz/funk/soul everywheremen LabRats and LSB (LoveSomebody).
    Aaron Davis, Sacbee.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Mishra might consider wielding his prodigious intellect and prominent platform against targets more worthy of attack than Salman Rushdie, Marilynne Robinson, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; there are a multitude.
    Harpers Magazine, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The herculean effort to translate its gargantuan script didn’t pay off and as a result, the outlook of XSeed localizing Trails in the Sky Second Chapter (SC) and Third Chapter (TC) remained grim for years.
    George Yang, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But more than that, there has to be an intrinsic motivation to take on gargantuan tasks.
    Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Another Premier League weekend, another titanic tussle between two teams with ambitions of winning it all.
    Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • The breakthrough offers the clearest picture yet of how these cosmic giants survive for billions of years without collapsing.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Or customize your own Polar Pizza by choosing your favorite base and toppings to pair with the cosmic flavor.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Patriots cruising into halftime with a gigantic lead.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Here, slowly being swallowed by vegetation and worn down by time, are gigantic mausoleums, vast underground cisterns, temples, imposing city walls and a breathtaking theater perched, like Machu Picchu, on a hilltop that offers views stretching for miles all around.
    Barry Neild, CNN Money, 23 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 7 Oct. 2025.

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