as in huge
unusually large
that's a tremendous amount of work for one person
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Recent Examples of tremendous
Skrenta did, however, express tremendous reverence for Common Crawl’s archive.
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Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
Grunloh is the one scouts have had a bit more excitement about, though, as the 7-footer is a tremendous shot blocker and defender who can also step out and occasionally knock down a shot.
—Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
The theft took place just days before the brazen daylight robbery of the Louvre in Paris, in which $102 million worth of Napoleonic jewels of tremendous importance to France were taken.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Nov. 2025
In addition to the buoys, the tremendous expansion of shoreline weather observations and the use of satellites to track storms and their severity have also transformed the information that's available to freighter captains and crew, Hultquist said.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 2 Nov. 2025
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Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
Grunloh is the one scouts have had a bit more excitement about, though, as the 7-footer is a tremendous shot blocker and defender who can also step out and occasionally knock down a shot.
—Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2025
The theft took place just days before the brazen daylight robbery of the Louvre in Paris, in which $102 million worth of Napoleonic jewels of tremendous importance to France were taken.
—News Desk, Artforum, 3 Nov. 2025
In addition to the buoys, the tremendous expansion of shoreline weather observations and the use of satellites to track storms and their severity have also transformed the information that's available to freighter captains and crew, Hultquist said.
—Keith Matheny, Freep.com, 2 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tremendous
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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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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
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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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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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Chasing a record 299, South Africa made a sedate start under immense pressure from medium pacer Renuka Singh.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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The technical, ethical, and environmental challenges are immense.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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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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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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“Tremendous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tremendous. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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