as in giant
unusually large
as military blunders go, the disastrous Pickett's Charge was of Himalayan proportions
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Of course, the heaviest anti-Shannon edit came from Sage, who noticed everything from the register of Shannon’s voice changing to her adversary being a giant shark wearing a cute seal mask.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
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The team already is contracted with oilfield services giant Halliburton, IPT Well Solutions, and Stampede Drilling.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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Trump on Sunday suggested Ukraine and Russia should freeze their bitter conflict along the current front lines, which would cede vast swathes of Ukrainian territory to Russia—which Kyiv has long refused to entertain.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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The vast majority of the population was illiterate.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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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 Northern Irishman is the first reigning Masters champion to play in the country and as expected, his presence at the Delhi Golf Club has had a huge impact.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Oct. 2025
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Pickleball has quickly become huge in the United States, with nearly 20 million people playing the sport.—
Arundathi Nair,
NPR,
19 Oct. 2025
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My love for Stevie Wonder is enormous, and a lot of that comes from Joni’s love for Stevie Wonder.—
Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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That's an enormous gap, but what other team has a better claim as the league's 11th-best?—
Chase Goodbread,
The Tuscaloosa News,
22 Oct. 2025
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This story of a logger (Joel Edgerton) working in the mountainous West as early-20th-century progress rolls over him like a wonder and a curse is the one movie in the streamer’s roster of Oscars hopefuls that people seem actually to love.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2025
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Some towers in remote deserts or mountainous regions send data through satellites, and anyone within the satellite’s coverage area can potentially intercept those signals.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Oct. 2025
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But SpaceX is not remotely ready to deliver, with serial failures of its mammoth Starship rocket delaying development of the lander.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
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Supply chain bottlenecks that have long constrained an expansion of electricity grids are showing signs of easing, but plenty of other mammoth challenges remain, an executive at a major power infrastructure firm told Semafor.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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This is tremendous news for the incredible people of Japan.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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The jewels are of tremendous national worth and their value incalculable.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Himalayan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Himalayan. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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