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Recent Examples of gigantic
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.
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Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
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
Breaking into the list only last month and ranking fourth was a gigantic, multi-generational home at 329 Albion Ave in Woodside, California, which sold for $85 million.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
The Athletic visited Mbeumo’s hometown of Avallon, with a population of just over 6,000, in what felt like the middle of nowhere, gigantic fields stretching for miles across the Burgundy region.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
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Rory Doherty, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2025
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
Breaking into the list only last month and ranking fourth was a gigantic, multi-generational home at 329 Albion Ave in Woodside, California, which sold for $85 million.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
The Athletic visited Mbeumo’s hometown of Avallon, with a population of just over 6,000, in what felt like the middle of nowhere, gigantic fields stretching for miles across the Burgundy region.
—Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gigantic
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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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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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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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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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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
Adjective
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For the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, magnetic storms, triggered by colossal solar explosions, repeatedly disrupted those networks.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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Just down the street from the colossal blue Scientology center (one of LA’s top locations for taking an ironic selfie) is Found Oyster, a delightful and perennially (pleasantly) crowded seafood restaurant inspired by clam shacks on the East Coast.—
Jocelyn Silver,
Vogue,
25 Oct. 2025
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But SpaceX is not remotely ready to deliver, with serial failures of its mammoth Starship rocket delaying development of the lander.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
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Supply chain bottlenecks that have long constrained an expansion of electricity grids are showing signs of easing, but plenty of other mammoth challenges remain, an executive at a major power infrastructure firm told Semafor.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Gigantic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gigantic. Accessed 2 Nov. 2025.
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