as in giant
unusually large
a galactic serving of soda that would have been enough for three moviegoers
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Recent Examples of galactic
Ace Frehley, the original lead guitarist and founding member of the glam rock band Kiss, who captivated audiences with his elaborate galactic makeup and smoking guitar, died Thursday.
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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
On Mars, long-term exposure to galactic cosmic rays poses another challenge.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
Together all three flavors are lumped into a broad category called active galactic nuclei, or AGN for short.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
The left three stars of the 5 star formation will form a pointer, with Alpha Cassiopeiae, or Shedar as its tip, guiding you to our galactic neighbor.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
On Mars, long-term exposure to galactic cosmic rays poses another challenge.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
Together all three flavors are lumped into a broad category called active galactic nuclei, or AGN for short.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
The left three stars of the 5 star formation will form a pointer, with Alpha Cassiopeiae, or Shedar as its tip, guiding you to our galactic neighbor.
—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for galactic
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Odysseus, the Ithacan warrior who is as celebrated for craftiness as Achilles is for brute strength, devises a clever ruse in which the Greeks place a giant wooden horse outside Troy’s walls and pretend to sail away.—
Elizabeth D. Samet,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Oct. 2025
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TelevisaUnivision’s networks, notably broadcast giant Univision, have been dark on YouTube TV for the past several weeks.—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
29 Oct. 2025
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Never mind its name, extreme temperatures, and vast expanses of desert—there are also stones that move on their own.—
Graham Averill,
Outside,
28 Oct. 2025
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These middlemen purchased vast troves of information, ranging from phone numbers and home addresses to bank loans and shopping history, leaked by employees of financial institutions, e-commerce companies and other service providers.—
Snigdha Poonam,
The Dial,
28 Oct. 2025
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The pitch clock has already gone a long way towards helping make baseball more accessible, but moving the first pitch back 25 minutes would still make a huge difference.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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Examples include huge catching nets, or docking with stray objects to force them back down into Earth's atmosphere.—
Elizabeth Howell,
Space.com,
26 Oct. 2025
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Plus, the cash flow from its chemical business is gigantic.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
26 Oct. 2025
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Titanic, gigantic GodzillaStomped on Tokyo, then on Manila.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 2025
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Landry, who charged LSU’s board of supervisors with leading the search for a new football coach, expressed dissatisfaction with the massive contract that Woodward had given Kelly, which included a buyout for as much as $53 million.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2025
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When Rubenstein asked whether the massive market capitalizations of major tech firms, some nearing $5 trillion, signal a potential bubble, Solomon offered a historical perspective.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
31 Oct. 2025
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There’s tremendous excitement within the physics community about three classes of experiment that are continuing to investigate the nature of the elusive neutrino.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
28 Oct. 2025
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So call this development tremendous progress.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
28 Oct. 2025
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But at some point in the near future, data-center spending will likely outpace even these enormous cash flows, reducing Big Tech’s liquidity and worrying investors.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
30 Oct. 2025
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There, in a cluster of enormous hangars and test buildings at Moffett Field, engineers were already shaping the future, not with code and computers, but with wind.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Oct. 2025
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Mostly Mute Monday tells an astronomical story in images, visuals, and no more than 200 words.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
27 Oct. 2025
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But the two have racked up an astronomical, nine-figure legal bill that far exceeds any reasonable amount the two may have needed for their defense, the bank said in a court filing late Friday.—
Ken Sweet,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Galactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/galactic. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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