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also cosmical
as in giant
unusually large
predicted that the war would forever be regarded as a cosmic error
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Recent Examples of cosmic
Comets are dirty cosmic snowballs that partially melt and form a tail as they near the sun.
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
Bursting with personality, Noz Nozawa’s spectrum of projects ranges from the cosmic psychedelia of a wet bar and wine cellar at the San Francisco Decorator Show House to the wild eclecticism of her own Bay Area home.
—Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 19 Apr. 2026
At first glance, this appears to contradict Theory of Relativity, which establishes the speed of light as the ultimate cosmic speed limit.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Apr. 2026
In the piece, the Vicar of Christ is felled not by his oppressors but rather by a random cosmic event.
—Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026
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Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 19 Apr. 2026
Bursting with personality, Noz Nozawa’s spectrum of projects ranges from the cosmic psychedelia of a wet bar and wine cellar at the San Francisco Decorator Show House to the wild eclecticism of her own Bay Area home.
—Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 19 Apr. 2026
At first glance, this appears to contradict Theory of Relativity, which establishes the speed of light as the ultimate cosmic speed limit.
—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 17 Apr. 2026
In the piece, the Vicar of Christ is felled not by his oppressors but rather by a random cosmic event.
—Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmic
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Just last month, his government paid a French energy company $1 billion to abandon two giant East Coast wind farm projects and use the check to invest in oil and gas projects instead.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2026
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Instead, there’s now a concrete tunnel that looks like a giant piece of abstract art.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
22 Apr. 2026
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Those institutions are largely unconcerned with the small- and medium-sized enterprises that Fasanara has become so accustomed to financing and would much rather continue to focus on large, mainstream corporate clients, where the returns are gigantic.—
Justin Birnbaum,
Sportico.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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The wide-plank floors and exposed rafters preserve some of the 1800s charm, along with gigantic fireplaces in the living room and the kitchen.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
16 Apr. 2026
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Deportees who aren't imprisoned face challenges Even those who are not immediately jailed face huge challenges, including economic ones, upon their return to their home country.—
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán,
NPR,
17 Apr. 2026
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Anderson said that experience was a huge help in preparing him for his eventual MLB promotion.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
17 Apr. 2026
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Being in the band for 10 years, that’s nearly a third of my life, and the vast majority of my creative life.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
11 Apr. 2026
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All in a place where people are living atop vast deposits of coal, oil, and gas.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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Spacecraft returning from the moon hit Earth's atmosphere at tremendous speeds — 24,000 mph (38,600 kph) or thereabouts.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
11 Apr. 2026
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How tremendous the moviegoing experience is throughout the country.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2026
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At the center of this discussion is China’s reported domestic AI computing capacity, which has reached an enormous scale measured in exaflops, or quintillions of calculations per second.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
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Although Nikki, who has a knack for DIY mechanical engineering, is able to furnish the gang with new gadgets, their plans pretty much always come down to almost getting eaten by some enormous otherworldly creature before being rescued at the last possible millisecond by El’s telekinesis.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2026
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There is evidence that the planet is healing amid massive efforts to mitigate climate change and fight biodiversity loss.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Since then, though refillable marketing has continued, increasingly savvy beauty consumers have come to increasingly see the concept as more about greenwashing than real impact on our massive packaging waste problem.—
Kara McGrath,
Allure,
22 Apr. 2026
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The silence might be partly explained by a colossal sense of embarrassment surrounding the eventual collapse of Abraaj.—
Hettie O'Brien,
The Dial,
21 Apr. 2026
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The Fanjuls fled Cuba after Fidel Castro’s takeover and built a sugar empire with colossal political might, amassing a fortune of more than $6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.—
Michael Smith,
Bloomberg,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Cosmic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmic. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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