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Recent Examples of cyclopean 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, 19 Jan. 2022 The wall was built with a range of construction techniques, including cyclopean masonry. Isis Davis-Marks, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021 Rachmaninoff’s humbling presence, re-encountered, is gigantic, cyclopean. Joseph Horowitz, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2018 Of course, the short, goggled and sometimes cyclopean minions are on hand, engaging in a prison food fight and dancing in a cancan-like production number. Innocuous pandemonium ensues in candy colors. Andy Webster, New York Times, 29 June 2017 Iran, Syria, Mali, Somalia, Eritrea, Iraq—in a Cyclopean cellar wrapped in near-total darkness. Ali Arkady, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017 If a mutation causes sonic hedgehog activity to become too muted, the result can be a birth defect called holoprosencephaly, marked in the most extreme cases by a head with a single, cyclopean eye. George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 16 Sep. 2013
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cyclopean
Adjective
  • A little further out, there’s a much more conventional factory site, where giant industrial mixers mass-produce the Firmenich scents.
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Those weeks saw students, pensioners, veterans, doctors and teachers stand in freezing temperatures around giant stages, teaching politicians that this was not a crowd to lead, but one to follow.
    Nick Spicer, NPR, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The vortex is a gigantic, circular area of cold air high up in the atmosphere that typically spins over the North Pole (as its name suggests).
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Streaming the first Avatar sequel on Disney+ just doesn’t compare to watching Payakan leap out of the ocean and annihilate the bad guys’ boat (and that one dude’s arm) in glorious 3-D on a gigantic screen.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • What happened from there led to a colossal collapse.
    Omar Kelly Updated October 6, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Buffett will remain chairman at Berkshire and will still be involved in deciding how to spend the conglomerate’s colossal pile of more than $344 billion cash.
    Dave Smith, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • This is important because Kane is 32, Gnabry is 30, and 23-year-old Olise will surely be subject to vast offers to go back to the Premier League in the coming seasons.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The vast majority of people want to be productive members of society and contribute to their communities.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The Apple Valley Model Railroad Museum has an enormous (22 feet by 100 feet) model railroad built in a picturesque Western North Carolina landscape.
    Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Thanks to Google’s enormous war chest, Waymo has had the luxury to spend 16 years raking in data to create more precise self-driving cars, all with the hope of an eventual payoff.
    Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • More pertinently, if Iroegbunam or Gueye tired or did not screen passes correctly (shown below), Rogers and Emiliano Buendia had huge spaces to receive and turn, owing to Everton’s deep centre-backs refusing to step out.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Mason had a huge game against the Bengals in Week 3, racking up 116 yards and two touchdowns on two carries.
    Jacob Camenker, USA Today, 5 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The year Goldberg-Polin and her family arrived in Israel, the country launched Operation Cast Lead, a massive military operation aimed at halting intensifying Hamas mortar, missile and rocket fire terrorizing southern Israeli communities.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Roan performs on a set that looks like a massive Gothic castle with a drawbridge, parapets and a throne.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The mammoth rock wall rises 3,000 feet above a meadow below.
    Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Playing catch-up from the very start of a regulation set is a mammoth task to overcome, though.
    Luke Smith, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025

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“Cyclopean.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cyclopean. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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