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It’s located on the Bellecôte piste, part of France’s mammoth Les Trois Vallées, the world’s largest ski area, with some 25,916 skiable acres.—
Adam H. Graham,
AFAR Media,
14 Oct. 2025 -
The meeting in Beijing is the latest of several high-profile gatherings hosted by China in recent months, including a major summit of mostly autocratic leaders in August followed by a mammoth military parade days later.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
13 Oct. 2025
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But the glaciers don’t stop at the shoreline; instead, colossal floating plates of ice hundreds of meters thick extend over the sea.—
Evan Howell,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Oct. 2025
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The Heart Nebula is a colossal star-forming region named for its resemblance to a cartoonish representation of the human heart.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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So the dream continues to grow to prodigious proportions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Oct. 2025
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His intellectual range was prodigious.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Spanning a whopping 26,000 square feet, the gargantuan pad has seven bedrooms, 10 full bathrooms, and a suite of amenities suited for A-list stars.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
20 Oct. 2025
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Everybody baked their makeup and lashes were gargantuan.—
Anna Cafolla,
Vogue,
18 Oct. 2025
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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
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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
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In the far distant future of our planet, will memories persist about cosmic disasters that wiped out entire populations?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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Kurma is a tortoise and represents endurance, patience and cosmic time.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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With back-to-back fights with Baragon and a gigantic octopus (who arrives with no explanation), Frankenstein’s kinship with King Kong – a simplistic empathy and wrestler-like physical prowess – has never felt clearer.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
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As the trend gathered followers in every borough, the walls of New York City became a gigantic canvas on which the collective unconscious was projected.—
Antonio Sergio Bessa,
Curbed,
20 Oct. 2025
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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 25 Oct. 2025.
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