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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bunyanesque
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Well-known for her use of out-of-the-ordinary materials over the years, like scarab wings and ancient mammoth ivory, van der Velden rose to the challenge of reinventing that most classic of stone in her own, original way.—
Kate Matthams,
Forbes,
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The Associated Press Nearly two months after an explosion sent flaming debris raining down on the Turks and Caicos, SpaceX launched another mammoth Starship rocket on Thursday, but lost contact minutes into the test flight as the spacecraft came tumbling down and broke apart.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
6 Mar. 2025
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Lunar Client debuted in April 2019 and struggled financially in its early days, but the company remained self-funded, with founders often going unpaid, before the platform’s popularity gained colossal momentum during the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Matt Gardner,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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The colossal storm will put over 100 million people at risk of severe weather, from blizzard conditions in the northern Plains to tornadoes and wildfires in the South.—
Christopher Cann,
USA TODAY,
12 Mar. 2025
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But there are 175 of them — which meant the film needed a prodigious ensemble of motion capture performers.—
Bill Desowitz,
IndieWire,
19 Mar. 2025
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Born in 1914, Barbara Newhall Follett was a prodigious literary talent.—
Patti Callahan Henry,
People.com,
16 Mar. 2025
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And Musk’s theatricalities are impotent: Government spending will grow as long as baby boomers continue to retire, the population ages and Congress continues to enlarge the national debt with gargantuan budget deficits.—
George Will,
Twin Cities,
20 Mar. 2025
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First introduced as he’s getting fired from his nightclub job — maintaining an absurd, gargantuan fish tank that the joint’s owner has deemed a bad investment — Doug seems to take the bad news in sloth-like acceptance.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2025
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In her time at Chelsea, Eriksson has had many battles with Olympique Lyonnais, winning their last tie after a titanic quarter-final two years ago which went to a penalty shoot-out.—
Asif Burhan,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2025
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Classical Fanny Hensel, née Mendelssohn, is at the top of a scarily long list of women whose accomplishments have been outshone by titanic men close to them.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2025
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Read More: What to Know About the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse The cosmic dance did not last long; the Earth continued on its orbital path and the moon began to brighten again after just over an hour.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
14 Mar. 2025
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Revolving around a cosmic, interdimensional figure, the show was broadcast on late-night TV and merged sci-fi, spirituality, and counterculture in a way that shaped generations of Newfoundlanders.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
14 Mar. 2025
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Then try Wilmot’s Warehouse, a strangely cheerful take on working in a gigantic storage warehouse.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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Explaining this, the paper proposes that the gigantic impact which formed the roughly 1,600 mile (2,500 kilometers) wide SPA basin around 4.2 billion years ago modified the chemical and physical properties of the moon's mantle in this region.—
Andrew Jones,
Space.com,
18 Mar. 2025
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The five-story Osaka Castle, a recreation of the original keep (which was destroyed on several occasions), is built on solid cyclopean foundations, with mint green roof tiles and golden accoutrements that bear striking similarities with Nagoya Castle.—
CNN,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2022
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The wall was built with a range of construction techniques, including cyclopean masonry.—
Isis Davis-Marks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Aug. 2021
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“Bunyanesque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Bunyanesque. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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