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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
Adjective
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Ed and my husband have voluminous conversations about obscure historical figures and the state of humanity.—
Zinzi Clemmons,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026
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Ever the one for a bit of flair, Cole Escola stepped out in a voluminous pink coordinating set that included a matching pussybow blouse.—
Hedy Phillips,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
Adjective
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The otherwise contemporary firm HOK’s interpretation features a row of square columns bookended by two bulky, mausoleum-like volumes — a kind of architectural equivalent to armored power shoulders.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
12 June 2026
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Oakland residents may schedule free appointments to bring bulky items directly to the landfill at 2615 Davis Street in San Leandro.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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Geoff Howarth, a former New Zealand captain unused to such lavish fare, once vomited on the field shortly after a particularly leaden lunch.—
Nick Miller,
New York Times,
6 June 2026
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For how vibrant and buoyant the film’s cinematography, production design, and costume design are, the script and its laborious dialogue are twice as leaden.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
23 May 2026
Adjective
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Scenes of playtime on the living-room floor, or of dinner amid cheerful family chat, all feel deeply lived in and plainly observed, even as the objects of daily life, from a doorknob to a sippy cup, take on outsized dramatic power.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
12 June 2026
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Think globally, worry locally While there’s no risk of big tech companies literally draining the oceans to power the data centers behind their LLMs, even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized effect on nearby water resources.—
Kyle Orland,
ArsTechnica,
12 June 2026
Adjective
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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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Homeland Security previously complained that the visits are too frequent and have become burdensome.—
Andrea Castillo,
Los Angeles Times,
12 June 2026
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These policies are arbitrary, burdensome, and unlikely to produce meaningful public health benefits.—
Alex Weatherall,
Boston Herald,
10 June 2026
Adjective
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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 16 Jun. 2026.
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