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as in huge
unusually large
I'm sleepy because I ate a humongous lunch
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Recent Examples of humongous
The center of the restaurant is home to a humongous cheese cellar that resembles a giant glass tube.
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2026
Bubble fears surrounds stocks within the Magnificent 7 — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla — as well as Oracle and Softbank and other tech companies’ multi-billion-dollar investments in the unrelenting buildout of humungous data centers to power their AI systems.
—Bob Woods, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
These burgeoning supermassive black holes could have formed either by the direct gravitational collapse of a humongous gas cloud or from the merger of myriad stellar-mass black holes produced by the core collapse of massive stars in a dense stellar cluster hidden inside a gas cloud.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2025
Only females could drag all around the world at night without ever getting lost a weighty sleigh, humongous, ginormous bag of toys and a fat guy in asuit who takes all the credit.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2025
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Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Jan. 2026
Bubble fears surrounds stocks within the Magnificent 7 — Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla — as well as Oracle and Softbank and other tech companies’ multi-billion-dollar investments in the unrelenting buildout of humungous data centers to power their AI systems.
—Bob Woods, CNBC, 11 Jan. 2026
These burgeoning supermassive black holes could have formed either by the direct gravitational collapse of a humongous gas cloud or from the merger of myriad stellar-mass black holes produced by the core collapse of massive stars in a dense stellar cluster hidden inside a gas cloud.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 28 Dec. 2025
Only females could drag all around the world at night without ever getting lost a weighty sleigh, humongous, ginormous bag of toys and a fat guy in asuit who takes all the credit.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for humongous
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However — and this is significant — Buffett faced some years with huge losses.—
Terry Savage,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Apr. 2026
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But land developers and speculators reap huge profits, the state and local governments gleefully do their bidding.—
DP Opinion,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
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Those institutions are largely unconcerned with the small- and medium-sized enterprises that Fasanara has become so accustomed to financing and would much rather continue to focus on large, mainstream corporate clients, where the returns are gigantic.—
Justin Birnbaum,
Sportico.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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The wide-plank floors and exposed rafters preserve some of the 1800s charm, along with gigantic fireplaces in the living room and the kitchen.—
Clio Chang,
Curbed,
16 Apr. 2026
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Just last month, his government paid a French energy company $1 billion to abandon two giant East Coast wind farm projects and use the check to invest in oil and gas projects instead.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Apr. 2026
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Instead, there’s now a concrete tunnel that looks like a giant piece of abstract art.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
22 Apr. 2026
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At the center of this discussion is China’s reported domestic AI computing capacity, which has reached an enormous scale measured in exaflops, or quintillions of calculations per second.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
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Although Nikki, who has a knack for DIY mechanical engineering, is able to furnish the gang with new gadgets, their plans pretty much always come down to almost getting eaten by some enormous otherworldly creature before being rescued at the last possible millisecond by El’s telekinesis.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Apr. 2026
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Being in the band for 10 years, that’s nearly a third of my life, and the vast majority of my creative life.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
11 Apr. 2026
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All in a place where people are living atop vast deposits of coal, oil, and gas.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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There is evidence that the planet is healing amid massive efforts to mitigate climate change and fight biodiversity loss.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
22 Apr. 2026
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Since then, though refillable marketing has continued, increasingly savvy beauty consumers have come to increasingly see the concept as more about greenwashing than real impact on our massive packaging waste problem.—
Kara McGrath,
Allure,
22 Apr. 2026
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Spacecraft returning from the moon hit Earth's atmosphere at tremendous speeds — 24,000 mph (38,600 kph) or thereabouts.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
11 Apr. 2026
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How tremendous the moviegoing experience is throughout the country.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2026
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The silence might be partly explained by a colossal sense of embarrassment surrounding the eventual collapse of Abraaj.—
Hettie O'Brien,
The Dial,
21 Apr. 2026
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The Fanjuls fled Cuba after Fidel Castro’s takeover and built a sugar empire with colossal political might, amassing a fortune of more than $6 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.—
Michael Smith,
Bloomberg,
17 Apr. 2026
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“Humongous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humongous. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.
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