colossal
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A week on from the colossal disaster, Nepali rescuers remained hopeful about finding survivors, particularly in multiple tunnels of hydropower plants across the region.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
Whitney Houston’s powerhouse version stands alone, but Dolly’s quieter, mournful ode to her collaboration with Porter Wagoner is the artful, formative sketch to a colossal mural.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
Peters also described a ban introduced in Australia in December as a "colossal failure".
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
A powerhouse version of Dangerous Woman claps like thunder; and Grande's vocal riffs on Safety Net are so tremendously colossal they should be registered as the eighth wonder of the world.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Rather than a colossal biblical Flood, Lyell argued, there had been millions of floods; God had shaped the earth not through singular cataclysms but through a million paper cuts.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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