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Modi won a third term at last year’s mammoth general elections, becoming the first leader since India’s founding prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, to secure such a feat.—
Jay Ganglani,
CNN,
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Once the ship had been steadied, Chahine, who is clearly someone who is never satisfied with just coasting, started the mammoth task to grow NiP into more than just an esports team.—
Mike Stubbs,
Forbes,
8 Feb. 2025
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While most coffee cake recipes don’t involve any coffee at all, these colossal bakery-style muffins take the recipe name a bit more literally.—
Katlyn Moncada,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Feb. 2025
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Despite its colossal size, the look managed to exude an ethereal aura with its floaty, sheer layers and curved draping details on the sweetheart-neckline bodice.—
Justine Fisher,
People.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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Standing behind his mom wearing a pair of shades, Gen watched as Keys gave shout-outs to the many people who believed in her prodigious talent early in her career.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
4 Feb. 2025
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In recent years, the fun-loving Maida hosted a radio show, Spin Cycle, and wrote the 2017 memoir Four Strings, Phony Proof and 300 45s — the last bit of the title is a reference to his prodigious collection of 45s — published by HoZac Books.—
Mike Barnes,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Feb. 2025
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The Trump administration’s desire to make Greenland part of the US has caused considerable consternation among the Indigenous population of just 57,000 people—though this isn’t the first time that America has made a bid for ownership of this gargantuan Arctic landmass.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Feb. 2025
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Like a gargantuan concrete building, what can start out impressive can crumble as time goes by.—
Anthony Paletta,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Feb. 2025
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Getting Dallas or Minnesota in the first round wouldn’t be a walk in the park, but Colorado needs to move up in the Central Division standings after the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off break to avoid a titanic first-round bout with either Edmonton or Winnipeg.—
Corey Masisak,
The Denver Post,
7 Feb. 2025
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The near side wrinkle ridges are huge, stretching from tens to hundreds of miles long and standing hundreds of yards tall, a testament to the titanic geological stresses that formed them.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
3 Feb. 2025
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Stern thinks the dwarf planet distinction is nonsensical—an arbitrary parsing of cosmic definitions.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
18 Feb. 2025
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But there is an earlier milestone that takes the band’s journey into the cosmic and consequential: On July 21, 1969, Led Zeppelin played The Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park, the same date that Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon.—
Steve Appleford,
SPIN,
17 Feb. 2025
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The standard Mercator map projection system distorts northern landmasses, so Greenland is stretched out to gigantic proportions.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
10 Feb. 2025
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On the way to the campsite, the refiners stumble upon a gigantic rotting animal carcass.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 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 21 Feb. 2025.
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