as in gigantic
unusually large
the titanic new skyscraper dwarfs every other building around it
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Recent Examples of titanic
Even when leaders know disruption is a smart long-term decision, the pain of transition can produce a titanic shambles.
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Scott D. Anthony, Big Think, 16 Sep. 2025
Split into phases focusing on different villains, the movies culminated in a two-part titanic team-up starring an ensemble cast which read like a roll call for the Oscars.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Unlike the First World War, which started for no good reason and was fought for even less, the American Civil War was understood by the most clear eyed Unionists and Confederates to be, from the outset, something titanic and consequential.
—Jack Sheehan
september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Osbourne’s death has the music industry in mourning over the loss of one of its most titanic figures.
—Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
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Scott D. Anthony, Big Think, 16 Sep. 2025
Split into phases focusing on different villains, the movies culminated in a two-part titanic team-up starring an ensemble cast which read like a roll call for the Oscars.
—Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Unlike the First World War, which started for no good reason and was fought for even less, the American Civil War was understood by the most clear eyed Unionists and Confederates to be, from the outset, something titanic and consequential.
—Jack Sheehan
september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025
Osbourne’s death has the music industry in mourning over the loss of one of its most titanic figures.
—Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for titanic
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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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It’s been a huge hit with my guests, and right now, Prime members can add it to their carts for just $40.—
Sian Babish,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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Her hair is often a massive tangle of black curls, her nails are expertly polished, her huge brown eyes peer out from spidery lashes, and her skin is cocoa-butter smooth.—
Stephanie Mansfield,
Vogue,
2 Nov. 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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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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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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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
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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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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
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“Titanic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titanic. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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