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Recent Examples of enormity The enormity of what happened in so short a span of time beggars belief. Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025 Imagine a scenario where banks can forecast market shifts in a matter of milliseconds, identify risk to a specific location and instantly rebalance portfolios—tasks that consume enormities of processing power and precious time today. Roman Reznikov, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025 While the enormity of the cast means some of the characters inevitably go underdeveloped, performances are compelling across the board. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025 The patient heatstroke victims that July weekend were an indication of the enormity of the 1995 heat wave that killed 739 people, more deaths than any disaster in Chicago history outside the 1915 SS Eastland tragedy. Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for enormity
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Noun
  • The magnitude of his passing is of epic proportions, and beyond comprehension.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Although the team may be surrounded by noise and adversity, the Eagles could use a trade of this magnitude to get things back on track.
    Cameron Belcher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Between every frame a disjunctive gap intrudes, subdividing the whole back into its parts, and thereby confronting the viewer with the plethora of copy culture, a barely manageable immensity of data.
    Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
  • To appreciate the full moral weight and dramatic immensity of these moments means grasping the significance of the moments leading up to them—and the ones that come afterward.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • He was joined by Ali Abbas and Ali Ayyoub, two former ministers of defense facing sanctions for human rights violations and atrocities carried out during the conflict.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Only instead of ignoring or burying this awful truth, Kai travels the world, speaking at synagogues and in Jewish community centers about his family’s dark past — and at high schools and colleges to ensure that the atrocities of Nazi Germany are never forgotten or sanitized.
    Johnny Dodd, PEOPLE, 11 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • To get a better idea of the vastness of the Milky Way, get out into the countryside where the sky is pitch dark.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Kidman laughed, delighted at the vastness of the universe.
    Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That was really what helped me into the character and into her evilness.
    William Earl, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Like Phish or Taylor Swift or The Dead, 21P have created a universe for their fans that is a self-sustaining mechanism, even if the hugeness of it doesn’t always translate into huge chart success.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Hawley, who directed the premiere, brings an impressive sense of scale to the action, conveying the hugeness of the spaceship and its urban crash zone, contrasted with the smallness of the figures trying to make their way through the mayhem.
    Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025

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“Enormity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enormity. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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