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bigger than life



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Cage might have preferred less showiness, but here they felt bigger than life, capable of moving a listener to tears.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 18, 2024

The Rangers called Howard “a bigger than life personality who was very popular with his teammates and the fans.”

From Washington Times Oct. 30, 2023

After filming his classmates on a trip to the beach, the footage, shown to the whole school, makes one bully look ridiculous and another glamorous, bigger than life.

From New York Times Dec. 9, 2022

A bigger than life, powerhouse of a woman, my own mother's favorite person who ever lived……the incomparable, Willie Felt.

From Salon Jul. 2, 2022

But there was her radiant face, bigger than life, framed by her familiar brown curls.

From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix




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