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A hulking figure appeared in the doorway.
a heavy, hulking stone blocked the way
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From the outside, the structure’s six minarets and hulking dome are impressive and imposing.
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Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 12 Dec. 2024
Outside the building itself — a hulking, brutalist cube in dilapidated off-white — crowds of mostly men gathered, some of them shouting to ask whether anyone had seen their sons, brothers or uncles believed detained by the regime.
—Richard Engel, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
Elsewhere, on a party yacht, the hulking Frankenstein (Black Widow‘s David Harbour) gets a call from said woman, informing him of the Bride’s arrival.
—Hayden Mears, TVLine, 5 Dec. 2024
Is the man-who-would-be-Leatherface the hulking Bud, the manic Ike, or the frantic and traumatized Jackson?
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 12 Dec. 2024
Outside the building itself — a hulking, brutalist cube in dilapidated off-white — crowds of mostly men gathered, some of them shouting to ask whether anyone had seen their sons, brothers or uncles believed detained by the regime.
—Richard Engel, NBC News, 10 Dec. 2024
Elsewhere, on a party yacht, the hulking Frankenstein (Black Widow‘s David Harbour) gets a call from said woman, informing him of the Bride’s arrival.
—Hayden Mears, TVLine, 5 Dec. 2024
Is the man-who-would-be-Leatherface the hulking Bud, the manic Ike, or the frantic and traumatized Jackson?
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Hulking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hulking. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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