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Mayor Mamdani came into office on New Year’s Day with big plans, lots of enthusiasm and the mammoth challenge of putting his lofty campaign promises into action.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
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Two hits came off the bat of Matt Wallner, who hit a mammoth blast out to the concourse in right field in the second inning off starter Nick Martinez, giving the Twins a one-run lead.—
Betsy Helfand,
Twin Cities,
5 Apr. 2026
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Before that, a colossal puckhandling gaffe by Woll got the Kings on the board.—
Andrew Knoll,
Daily News,
5 Apr. 2026
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His Iran deal would have led to a colossal arsenal of massive nuclear weapons for Iran.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
2 Apr. 2026
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There is also a prodigious concentration of talent here.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Apr. 2026
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Sophomore shortstop Michaela Landers has been the catalyst, with one of the most prodigious seasons the state has ever seen.—
Greg Riddle,
Dallas Morning News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Now, as March brightens into April, the half-dozen lawmakers charged with crafting that gargantuan document are nearly finished.—
The Denver Post,
Denver Post,
4 Apr. 2026
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Soon, locals in Huntersville can chow on authentic Baja-style Mexican cuisine and wash it all down with a gargantuan margarita.—
Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
31 Mar. 2026
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George Brett’s titanic home run off Goose Gossage in the 1980 American League Championship Series is one.—
Pete Grathoff,
Kansas City Star,
7 Apr. 2026
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The deep space image captures a fleeting moment in a titanic struggle that has lasted hundreds of millions of years, as the gravitational influence of the galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 pulls at one another to create chaos on a truly cosmic scale.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
28 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Houston’s Mission Control arranged the cosmic chitchat between the four lunar travelers and the space station’s three NASA and one French residents.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Apr. 2026
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Only when stars and galaxies started forming from all that hydrogen was there enough light and heat to reionize some of the hydrogen atoms, making those growing cosmic structures visible to our telescopes.—
Joseph Howlett,
Scientific American,
8 Apr. 2026
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Even Sebastiaan Bornauw, United’s gigantic centre-back, fizzed a long-range effort off Alphonse Areola’s gloves.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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Try a pair of trendy bug-eyed sunglasses to balance out your gigantic grocery tote.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
6 Apr. 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 13 Apr. 2026.
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