as in huge
unusually large
that's a tremendous amount of work for one person
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Recent Examples of tremendous
For Tyler and [Cade Gibson] to get us through five innings was tremendous.
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Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Although the Mustangs have room to grow, the victory is a tremendous sign ahead of a challenging district slate.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
The Chiefs had a tremendous amount of trouble using their legs to move the ball.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Ostovar, a tremendous all-around player, was last season’s Orange County and CIF Southern Section Division 1 player of the year, and was Trinity League most valuable player.
—Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
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Steve Gorten, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
Although the Mustangs have room to grow, the victory is a tremendous sign ahead of a challenging district slate.
—Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Sep. 2025
The Chiefs had a tremendous amount of trouble using their legs to move the ball.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
Ostovar, a tremendous all-around player, was last season’s Orange County and CIF Southern Section Division 1 player of the year, and was Trinity League most valuable player.
—Steve Fryer, Oc Register, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tremendous
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The Studio Ends Big Night With Record Wins Seth Rogen closed out a huge night for Apple TV+’s The Studio, which won best comedy.—
Toni Fitzgerald,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Stewart has also become a huge advocate for New Yorkers who were exposed to deadly toxins during the 9/11 attacks, and even spoke before Congress in 2019 to urge the passing of a bill that would provide aid to victims.—
Keith Langston,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Sep. 2025
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No liquor, no food, just an enormous outdoor patio teeming with Carolina Blue, popular bands, students, alumni and celebrities.—
The Athletic College Football Staff,
New York Times,
11 Sep. 2025
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One of the enormous elk lived in immense, rough country near Ennis, Montana.—
Jack Atcheson Sr. as told to Michael Hanback,
Outdoor Life,
11 Sep. 2025
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The vast, sprawling Conjuring franchise, which began back in 2013, has spawned a complex web of sequels, prequels and spin-offs, some of which are loosely based on cases covered by paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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The vast majority of NCAA student-athletes want to earn their degree while playing ball.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2025
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In Let’s Play Ball, two rival teams of comedians go head-to-head in a race to transport a gigantic ball across various terrains.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
9 Sep. 2025
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Large downward revisions to monthly jobs data in recent weeks put a gigantic spotlight on an incredibly typical procedure for economic data.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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In short, the massive popularity of its original anime ‘80s run wasn’t matched by its merchandising, and that’s something that is now being belatedly addressed.—
Ollie Barder,
Forbes.com,
12 Sep. 2025
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Musk has long said Starship’s sheer size and power could make brand-new types of missions possible, including carrying groups of humans to Mars and deploying massive new space telescopes.—
Jackie Wattles,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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Like an amulet, or a bible, the immense and somehow lingering grief and rage flowing through it is with me everywhere.—
Sara Stridsberg
September 15,
Literary Hub,
15 Sep. 2025
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There is immense comfort in shared failure; there is immense career risk in an unconventional success that cannot be easily explained to a board.—
Benjamin D. Summers,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The interior also worked well for the series’ trademark giant roundtable, and was able to accommodate the large cast.—
Carole Horst,
Variety,
10 Sep. 2025
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For a long time, people simply followed the work of researchers in the 1970s — including Carl Sagan — who studied the worlds in our Solar System, and assumed such exo-atmospheres would have similar hazes to Saturn’s giant moon Titan.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
10 Sep. 2025
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According to Cook, Apple shareholders are not protesting the company's colossal domestic manufacturing spend.—
Julie Coleman,
CNBC,
15 Sep. 2025
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And so, with these four short works, the divide between the fantastical and the real, the inside and the outside collapses, laying bare this colossal network connecting us all.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
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“Tremendous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tremendous. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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