as in gigantic
unusually large
people seem to be buying ever more gargantuan SUVs these days
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Recent Examples of gargantuan
The herculean effort to translate its gargantuan script didn’t pay off and as a result, the outlook of XSeed localizing Trails in the Sky Second Chapter (SC) and Third Chapter (TC) remained grim for years.
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George Yang, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
But more than that, there has to be an intrinsic motivation to take on gargantuan tasks.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
The modular architecture lets operators scale capacity by stacking more cells rather than building a single gargantuan reactor.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
Swift made history several years back with her The Eras Tour movie, a concert film tied to her gargantuan trek.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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George Yang, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
But more than that, there has to be an intrinsic motivation to take on gargantuan tasks.
—Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
The modular architecture lets operators scale capacity by stacking more cells rather than building a single gargantuan reactor.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 23 Sep. 2025
Swift made history several years back with her The Eras Tour movie, a concert film tied to her gargantuan trek.
—Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gargantuan
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With back-to-back fights with Baragon and a gigantic octopus (who arrives with no explanation), Frankenstein’s kinship with King Kong – a simplistic empathy and wrestler-like physical prowess – has never felt clearer.—
Rory Doherty,
Vulture,
20 Oct. 2025
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As the trend gathered followers in every borough, the walls of New York City became a gigantic canvas on which the collective unconscious was projected.—
Antonio Sergio Bessa,
Curbed,
20 Oct. 2025
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The Northern Irishman is the first reigning Masters champion to play in the country and as expected, his presence at the Delhi Golf Club has had a huge impact.—
Julio Cesar Valdera Morales,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Oct. 2025
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Pickleball has quickly become huge in the United States, with nearly 20 million people playing the sport.—
Arundathi Nair,
NPR,
19 Oct. 2025
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But one scholar, Anthony Grafton, who about thirty years ago published Forgers and Critics, focused on how in the early modern period, there was this enormous flourishing not only of culture but also of liars.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
16 Oct. 2025
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The level of detail is enormous, but Newcastle’s story remains intimate and there is something profound about Moore filling this role in this of all places.—
George Caulkin,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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Of course, the heaviest anti-Shannon edit came from Sage, who noticed everything from the register of Shannon’s voice changing to her adversary being a giant shark wearing a cute seal mask.—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
23 Oct. 2025
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The team already is contracted with oilfield services giant Halliburton, IPT Well Solutions, and Stampede Drilling.—
Jordan Blum,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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Trump on Sunday suggested Ukraine and Russia should freeze their bitter conflict along the current front lines, which would cede vast swathes of Ukrainian territory to Russia—which Kyiv has long refused to entertain.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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The vast majority of the population was illiterate.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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The Red Ghost was said to be a massive, red-haired camel with a skeletal rider strapped to its back.—
Tiffany Acosta,
AZCentral.com,
17 Oct. 2025
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Relying solely on Amazon’s admittedly massive reach would be both a lifeline and a painful concession.—
Mara Weinraub,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
17 Oct. 2025
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But the glaciers don’t stop at the shoreline; instead, colossal floating plates of ice hundreds of meters thick extend over the sea.—
Evan Howell,
Quanta Magazine,
20 Oct. 2025
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The Heart Nebula is a colossal star-forming region named for its resemblance to a cartoonish representation of the human heart.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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This is tremendous news for the incredible people of Japan.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Oct. 2025
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The jewels are of tremendous national worth and their value incalculable.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Gargantuan.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gargantuan. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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