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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
Bask in the sound of lapping waves from the king-size bed, or laze in a hammock overlooking the water.
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Cameron Sperance, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2025
Styles available: Standard and king-size options are available.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2025
The primary suite is at the end of a hall extending from the kitchen, with a bedroom that fits a king-size bed, a large walk-in closet and a bathroom with a dual vanity and a walk-in shower.
—Angela Serratore, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
The coverlet fit a king-size bed well with enough material hanging off the sides to cover the bed’s flat sheet and blanket on all sides.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
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Cameron Sperance, Travel + Leisure, 24 Feb. 2025
Styles available: Standard and king-size options are available.
—Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2025
The primary suite is at the end of a hall extending from the kitchen, with a bedroom that fits a king-size bed, a large walk-in closet and a bathroom with a dual vanity and a walk-in shower.
—Angela Serratore, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
The coverlet fit a king-size bed well with enough material hanging off the sides to cover the bed’s flat sheet and blanket on all sides.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for king-size
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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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Sawfish, related to rays, skates and sharks, are named for their elongated, flat snout that contains a row of teeth on each side.—
Curt Anderson,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2025
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Lenses that are less spherical and more elongated, in contrast, can produce a similar phenomenon called an Einstein Cross, in which four distinct images are produced around the lensing galaxy.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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The Atlanta Braves suffered a huge hit to the roster last season when their ace Spencer Strider went down with a torn UCL.—
Mark Davis,
Newsweek,
17 Mar. 2025
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Watching this film will be huge, and then Coach getting on our (butts) will be big for us.—
Colleen Kane,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2025
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Some feature high waists to elongate legs or pleats to conjure old-school élan worthy of Cary Grant.—
Charlie Teasdale,
WSJ,
21 Nov. 2023
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The fragment, which was cleaved from its fecal parent with a pair of wire cutters, resembles a chunk of light-colored concrete with darker, elongate inclusions that Chin recognizes as bone.—
Karen Wright,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2019
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She’s accompanied by Cosmo, a robot with a giant cartoon head and the soulful eyes of someone—or something—that might be more than just a machine.—
Tony Bradley,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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The surviving robots, meanwhile, got sent to a giant prison colony somewhere in the deserts of the American Southwest.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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Mature males grow long, glorious, pendulous snoods.—
Alice Jones Webb,
Outdoor Life,
21 Mar. 2025
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That’s something Courtois has done for a long time, a staple of his technique.—
Liam Twomey,
The Athletic,
20 Mar. 2025
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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,
8 Mar. 2025
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But a group of Creepers, the planet’s indigenous centipede/mammoth hybrid species, recues Mickey 17.—
Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
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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“King-size.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/king-size. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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