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A hulking figure appeared in the doorway.
a heavy, hulking stone blocked the way
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Workers began construction on Tuesday on a novel type of nuclear reactor meant to be smaller and cheaper than the hulking reactors of old and designed to produce electricity without the carbon dioxide that is rapidly heating the planet.
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Brad Plumer Benjamin Rasmussen, New York Times, 11 June 2024
But how exactly did the hulking Altar Stone arrive on the Salisbury Plain in the first place?
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Aug. 2024
The Silicon Valley site’s most notable feature is a hulking building known as Hangar One, which in the 1930s housed a U.S. Navy airship and today is a conspicuous landmark along U.S. 101.
—Rob Davis, ProPublica, 13 Aug. 2024
By Adam Robb July 25, 2024 6:50 AM EDT
At the end of World War II, Western allies feared that razing the largest German Army bunker in Hamburg, a hulking concrete edifice that doubled as an anti-aircraft tower and civilian shelter, might risk destroying the surrounding St. Pauli neighborhood.
—Adam Robb, TIME, 25 July 2024
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Brad Plumer Benjamin Rasmussen, New York Times, 11 June 2024
But how exactly did the hulking Altar Stone arrive on the Salisbury Plain in the first place?
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Aug. 2024
The Silicon Valley site’s most notable feature is a hulking building known as Hangar One, which in the 1930s housed a U.S. Navy airship and today is a conspicuous landmark along U.S. 101.
—Rob Davis, ProPublica, 13 Aug. 2024
By Adam Robb July 25, 2024 6:50 AM EDT
At the end of World War II, Western allies feared that razing the largest German Army bunker in Hamburg, a hulking concrete edifice that doubled as an anti-aircraft tower and civilian shelter, might risk destroying the surrounding St. Pauli neighborhood.
—Adam Robb, TIME, 25 July 2024
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“Hulking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hulking. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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