as in mammoth
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Note: Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani averaged a mammoth 11.40 strikeouts per nine innings in six seasons with the Angels but hasn’t pitched enough to qualify for the all-time list.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
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En route to the mammoth exhibit, after getting lightly heckled by a museumgoer in a NASA hat, they were wowed in the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs.—
Sarah Larson,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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In early 2025, the company made a breakthrough with the colossal woolly mouse, sharing parts of the woolly mammoth’s DNA and proving the scientists’ ability to recreate complex genetic combinations that took nature millions of years to create.—
Emma Kershaw,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Around one-third of the world’s fish stocks are overfished, including those in Southeast Asia, where China operates a colossal fishing operation.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
5 June 2025
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Left-handed hitters have reached base against him at a prodigious clip.—
Dennis Lin,
New York Times,
29 May 2025
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The result is one of the most staggering moments of the series, and proof of both Cooper’s prodigious talent, able to use a very real moment (as Owen) to add more resonance to his performance (as Jamie).—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
29 May 2025
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The shortage of affordable housing is a gargantuan problem that limits quality of life and economic opportunity in nearly every community while leaving nearly a million Americans – including 150,000 children – without a home.—
Ryan Craig,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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Weighing in at a gargantuan 30 tracks, Music debuted at the top spot on the Billboard 200 with the biggest streaming week for a rap album since Drake’s For All the Dogs in 2023.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
28 May 2025
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Plenty of ports round out the package, and right now HP is offering a titanic 61% price drop.—
K. Thor Jensen,
PC Magazine,
27 May 2025
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That means its origin must be extragalactic, perhaps created in the violence of a star exploding and producing a gamma-ray burst, or a supermassive black hole ripping a star or gas cloud to shreds with its titanic gravitational tidal forces.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
16 May 2025
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Since just 10% of early black holes are actively eating gas and dust, extreme nuclear transients are a different way to find black holes across vast cosmic distances.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
6 June 2025
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Yet there are regions deep within the cosmic voids where not even dark matter penetrates.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
6 June 2025
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In numerous ways, the loss of Fernandes would be a gigantic blow for United.—
Graham Ruthven,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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This gigantic bet-and-get offer is exclusively available to new DraftKings customers who use the code and register today.—
Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 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 13 Jun. 2025.
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