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Recent Examples of enormity Or the enormity of billions of galaxies filled with billions of solar systems with planets like ours? Marsha Sutton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Mar. 2025 In terms of challenges regarding sustainability, one of the biggest has been breaking down the enormity of the task at hand to be more socially and environmentally aware. Christopher Marquis, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 But that adage doesn’t go nearly far enough to convey the enormity of the likely fallout from US President Donald Trump’s decision to impose a colossal set of new tariffs on America’s trading partners. Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 4 Apr. 2025 In fact, the enormity of a task often is why people pursue it in the first place. Alex Hutchinson, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for enormity
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Noun
  • Flares of this magnitude are uncommon, the service added.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
  • Recent data underscores the magnitude of the challenge.
    Masha Sedova, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • The resulting Hubble Deep Field image revealed about 3,000 distant galaxies, offering humanity's first profound look into the universe's true immensity and revealing a cosmos teeming with galaxies, even at extreme distances.
    Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The sheer immensity of the tent city is jaw-dropping, a hinterland oblivion of yurts and RVs, all stretching into the distance as far as the eye can see.
    Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Our government continues to give Israel billions in military aid with which to carry out these atrocities.
    Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 3 May 2025
  • Less than half a dozen countries, including Sweden, the Netherlands, and Armenia have recognized these atrocities.
    Lynn Zovighian, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 May 2025

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

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