as in huge
unusually large
that's a tremendous amount of work for one person
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Recent Examples of tremendous
The Buzz: Seminole County player of the year had 12 goals and 23 ground balls and played tremendous defense.
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Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
Her willowy frame takes a tremendous battering as brutes slam her into tables and through walls.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
Pale Blue and Red is considered of tremendous significance within the history of British modern art.
—News Desk, Artforum, 5 June 2025
After the deal closed, at the end of June 2015, Gannett didn’t wait very long before executing its first major accretive acquisition to create tremendous synergies.
—Megan Greenwell, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
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Chris Hays, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 June 2025
Her willowy frame takes a tremendous battering as brutes slam her into tables and through walls.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2025
Pale Blue and Red is considered of tremendous significance within the history of British modern art.
—News Desk, Artforum, 5 June 2025
After the deal closed, at the end of June 2015, Gannett didn’t wait very long before executing its first major accretive acquisition to create tremendous synergies.
—Megan Greenwell, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tremendous
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Merz recently vowed to make Germany’s army the strongest in Europe, but in order to meet that pledge, he will be required to spend huge sums of money to modernize, train and equip soldiers.—
Sebastian Shukla,
CNN Money,
8 June 2025
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The sixth installment in Warner Bros. and New Line’s long-running horror property, in which people die in increasingly insane incidents, is a huge hit.—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
8 June 2025
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The enormous success of Prey showed us that the best Predator stories may be the truly standalone ones.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
13 June 2025
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Each of the 15 adults-only villas has an enormous deck and plunge pool, and includes features like fire pits and indoor-outdoor showers.—
Jake Emen,
Robb Report,
12 June 2025
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Secretly Group was founded in Bloomington, Indiana in 1996 and its vast roster includes Phoebe Bridgers, Bon Iver, Mitski, Japanese Breakfast, Angel Olsen and many more and the labels Dead Oceans, Jagjaguwar, Saddest Factory Records and Secretly Canadian.—
Jem Aswad,
Variety,
10 June 2025
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The hybrid online program offers an in-depth exploration of the secondhand textile system, focusing on how vast quantities of clothing end up in Africa.—
Angela Velasquez,
Sourcing Journal,
10 June 2025
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Reid Neumann, the director of marketing for GPS Hospitality, handed Baker a gigantic check.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
6 June 2025
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Joe gives El the location where Emery is going to seal a gigantic drug deal the next day.—
Kimberly Roots,
TVLine,
5 June 2025
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While riggers hung massive lights and construction workers assembled the stage on a grueling day before Tyler Childers‘ June 2024 concert at the United Center, three young locals showed up: Cheryl, Larry and Ted.—
Steve Knopper,
Billboard,
9 June 2025
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The 1984 Games were also privately funded and hailed as a massive success for their $225 million surplus that was invested in youth sports.—
Thuc Nhi Nguyen,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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The Tarrytown Lighthouse suffered immense damage on May 31, which could cost over $100,000, according to Westchester County.—
Michael P. McKinney,
USA Today,
7 June 2025
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These programs trace galaxy behavior over immense timescales—plenty long enough for their spiral arms to rotate and potentially impact their surroundings, both seen and unseen.—
Stephen Clark – Jun 6,
ArsTechnica,
6 June 2025
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But the film makes too little a point of one giant forebear.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
6 June 2025
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This places it in the upper echelons of a type of planet called super-Earths — giant, probably rocky worlds.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
6 June 2025
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Around one-third of the world’s fish stocks are overfished, including those in Southeast Asia, where China operates a colossal fishing operation.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
5 June 2025
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In early 2025, the company made a breakthrough with the colossal woolly mouse, sharing parts of the woolly mammoth’s DNA and proving the scientists’ ability to recreate complex genetic combinations that took nature millions of years to create.—
Emma Kershaw,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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“Tremendous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tremendous. Accessed 15 Jun. 2025.
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