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also humungous
as in huge
unusually large
I'm sleepy because I ate a humongous lunch
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Recent Examples of humongous
That, if these stories are true, the Clippers (i.e., Steve Ballmer) practiced salary cap evasion on Kawhi Leonard’s contract extension and might have put themselves in jeopardy of not only a humongous fine but maybe not having another first-round draft pick until, say, the 2030s?
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Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
Bradley Cooper directed a movie about humongous pop stars followed by one movie about an iconic classical musician.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
Later, Garfield ingeniously devises the knockout equivalent of a split-screen effect as Polly races along a desert path, while over the rise just above her, a humongous shootout ensues.
—Joe Leydon, Variety, 1 Aug. 2025
Oregon’s moist Pacific Northwestern climate is ripe with dead and decomposing wood and plant material, providing ample space and food for the humongous fungus to continue its growth at an indeterminate rate.
—Madison Dapcevich, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2025
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Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
Bradley Cooper directed a movie about humongous pop stars followed by one movie about an iconic classical musician.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
Later, Garfield ingeniously devises the knockout equivalent of a split-screen effect as Polly races along a desert path, while over the rise just above her, a humongous shootout ensues.
—Joe Leydon, Variety, 1 Aug. 2025
Oregon’s moist Pacific Northwestern climate is ripe with dead and decomposing wood and plant material, providing ample space and food for the humongous fungus to continue its growth at an indeterminate rate.
—Madison Dapcevich, Discover Magazine, 25 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for humongous
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At the center of all the glitzy havoc—her face often looming on a huge flat screen that rolls around the stage, following actors like a hulking LED stalker—is of course Chenoweth.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
10 Nov. 2025
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Todd also had a huge sack in the fourth quarter.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
9 Nov. 2025
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As the season shifts toward winter, the polar jet stream begins to shift south and can stir up storms that produce howling winds and gigantic waves in November on the Great Lakes.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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The drive-thru incident took place a month after authorities in Miami were called to remove a gigantic snake from a nearby work site.—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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That move, however, allowed the giant exhibitor to fully redeem all of its 2026 debt maturities.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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Generative, predictive, and other forms of AI collectively are projected to generate as much as $340 billion annually in value creation for the global banking sector, consulting giant McKinsey has estimated.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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Danielewski is a writer of enormous power and vision.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Some of this, of course, is related to fires in California and hurricanes in the southeast that destroyed an enormous amount of utility infrastructure.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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The modern digital world produces vast amounts of data (as much as 402 million TB a day), yet its value remains largely undefined.—
Matthew Kayser,
USA Today,
4 Nov. 2025
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Entanglement—the idea that two particles are linked even at a vast distance—helped illustrate the characters’ desperate yearning to recreate the past.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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China has undertaken a massive expansion of sites linked to missile production since 2020, bolstering its ability to potentially deter the US military and assert its dominance in the region, a new CNN analysis of satellite images, maps and government notices reveals.—
Tamara Qiblawi,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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For Native people, the war marked a dangerous fork in the road, stirring famine, spurring a massive refugee crisis, and permanently shifting the balance of power in the heart of the continent.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
7 Nov. 2025
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The communiqué earned a tremendous amount of positive press.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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But people were tremendous and recording themselves watching the finale episode and crying or being shocked, in a pit of despair or whatever.—
Lexy Perez,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Her book objects might also take colossal form, as in 1967’s The Big Book, featuring eight-foot-by-four-foot pages secured to a central spine and moveable via casters.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
3 Nov. 2025
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Visitors entering the museum are greeted by the colossal 3,200-year-old, 11-meter-tall statue of King Ramses II, which stood for decades in central Cairo's Ramses Square before being relocated to its new home near the museum in 2006.—
Ayat Al-Tawy,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
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“Humongous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/humongous. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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