as in voluminous
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Recent Examples of massy
While the attempts to create massy cinema land fine for most parts, Dhawan does not quite emerge as the larger-than-life south-Indian hero set to rule the audience merely with his presence.
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Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
All objects that have mass interact with other massy objects—that’s called gravitational interaction.
—Wired, 6 Nov. 2019
The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 4 May 2017
Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
All objects that have mass interact with other massy objects—that’s called gravitational interaction.
—Wired, 6 Nov. 2019
The courtiers, having entered, brought furnaces and massy hammers and welded the bolts.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 4 May 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for massy
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In partnership with Tanqueray, the Sex and the City alum touched down in Rio de Janeiro wearing a voluminous green dress with an oversized hair accessory that would make Carrie Bradshaw proud.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
17 Feb. 2026
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Some of her clients even use it lightly as a finishing or detailing product for a dry, voluminous effect, though it’s primarily formulated as a scalp treatment.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
16 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Instead of relying on bulky shielding, satellites could use circuits that are intrinsically resistant to radiation.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026
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The shorter length feels fresh and easy to style, while the high neck offers extra protection on windy days without the need for a bulky scarf.—
Rosie Marder,
Travel + Leisure,
20 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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If ‘Oxen’ occupies a region of Ulysses where Joyce’s exquisite ear for memorably musical sentences (‘Mild fire of wine kindled his veins’) takes a back seat to the leaden hum of meta-literature, that is no reason not to be awed by his chutzpah.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Feb. 2026
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Unfortunately, through its first four episodes, The Copenhagen Test is also a wonderful sleep aid — a whole lot of leaden dialogue and convoluted plotting, with very little intensity or momentum.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Dec. 2025
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This is the question explored in The War Room, which examines Bill Clinton's presidential bid via the proxies of James Carville and George Stephanopoulos, who ran his campaign and engineered its success in an outsized way.—
Eric Farwell,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Feb. 2026
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Many of the researchers that spoke to STAT see CIRM as a model, though California is also an outsized state.—
Anil Oza,
STAT,
20 Feb. 2026
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Queen Kapiolani, Hawaii’s queen from 1874 to 1891, died on the land that became the site of the elephantine indoor/outdoor Hyatt Regency resort in Waikīkī, where Kumukahi was the cultural ambassador for a decade.—
Matt Negrin,
Rolling Stone,
20 Sep. 2025
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Eclectic traditionalism, remade on an elephantine scale, is the style of totalitarianism.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
6 Sep. 2025
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Europe’s competitiveness is at stake if compliance becomes too burdensome, and in an Antwerp meeting last week, industry leaders called on the European Commission to continue supporting this kind of regulatory relief.—
Tara Donaldson,
Vogue,
16 Feb. 2026
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Trump-era regulators have been working a new bank capital proposal that would be less burdensome on the biggest US banks than a Biden-era plan, Bloomberg News previously reported.—
News Service Reports,
Oc Register,
16 Feb. 2026
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The contrast with Durant’s lumpish Johnny makes no sense.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Oct. 2024
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Because both actors look like lumpish proletarian versions of Ingmar Bergman stars — Alma Pöysti, radiant yet benumbed, plays Ansa like a dish-towel Bibi Andersson, and Jussi Vatanen could be the schlump brother of Max von Sydow (with a dollop of Ryan Gosling).—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
23 May 2023
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“Massy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/massy. Accessed 22 Feb. 2026.
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