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or king-sized
1
as in gigantic
unusually large
built a king-size mansion with the money he had made in the stock market
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2
as in elongated
of great extent from end to end
the king-size snake known as the anaconda
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Recent Examples of king-size
Guest room options range from a deluxe with a king-size bed to a premier, which has a private balcony and two queen-size beds.
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Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2025
The open layout flows from a king-size bed dressed in crisp white linens to a compact kitchenette stocked for morning coffee and easy island meals.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 31 July 2025
For the best of all, choose the penthouse suite with its two corner king-size bedrooms.
—Johanna Read, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
That results in a bed space measuring a full 75 x 80 in (191 x 203-cm), an inch short of full and proper king-size dimensions.
—New Atlas, 30 July 2025
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Mae Hamilton, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2025
The open layout flows from a king-size bed dressed in crisp white linens to a compact kitchenette stocked for morning coffee and easy island meals.
—Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 31 July 2025
For the best of all, choose the penthouse suite with its two corner king-size bedrooms.
—Johanna Read, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
That results in a bed space measuring a full 75 x 80 in (191 x 203-cm), an inch short of full and proper king-size dimensions.
—New Atlas, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for king-size
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If confirmed, this finding would mean the gigantic blue-green ice planet would have 29 moons.—
Jorge Garay,
Wired News,
22 Aug. 2025
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His gigantic pants, shin pads and elbow pads are all bespoke, too.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
21 Aug. 2025
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But the researchers found that by piecing together the four observations, a single, plausible world could emerge: a cool, Saturn-mass planet looping around the star every 1.5 to 2.5 Earth years on an elongated, elliptical orbit.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
7 Aug. 2025
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The less massive black hole moves on an elongated, elliptical orbit.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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By then the nation is forecast to be facing a huge spike in power outages if sufficient new energy is not released into the U.S. electric grid.—
Noël Fletcher,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Data centers and artificial intelligence are using huge amounts of electricity to power the largest area of growth in our economy.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
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The tusk, which is actually an elongated tooth, is mainly found in males and can grow up to 10 feet long.—
Monica Cull,
Discover Magazine,
28 Feb. 2025
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Chaos is a constant for the outdoor winter sport with single-elimination playoffs that relies on the bounces of an elongated sphere.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
The Athletic,
13 Feb. 2025
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Before the festival, students at Escuela Verde in Silver City will create the photo collage that will be added to the giant letters, Bautch said.—
Alyssa N. Salcedo,
jsonline.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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The video shows the shark's dorsal fin cutting across the water before the giant fish drifts along the side of the kayak, its skin visible just below the surface.—
Soo Kim,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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After taking in the scenery, golfers face a choice of whether to play the larger left green at a longer yardage or the shorter distance to the smaller right green.—
Erik Matuszewski,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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Those two days have the longest daylight hours and are typically the most well-attended.—
Andy Humbles,
The Tennessean,
23 Aug. 2025
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Intel also tried unsuccessfully to grasp the mammoth cell phone opportunity.—
Lila MacLellan,
Fortune,
11 Aug. 2025
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The mammoth wildfire burned for 24 days, burning a total of 80,779 acres in eastern San Luis Obispo County before it was fully contained on July 26.—
Hannah Poukish,
Sacbee.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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With downtime costing Fortune 500 companies approximately 11% of yearly turnover—a colossal $1.5 trillion—the ROI on maintenance optimization has never been clearer.—
Chris Turlica,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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First came a colossal eruption off the sun's southeastern limb, caught in stunning detail by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and NOAA's GOES-SUVI instrument.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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“King-size.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/king-size. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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