dwarf
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That is nothing to sneeze at—though it is dwarfed by the $13 trillion that was indexed to the S&P 500.
In fact, it’s dwarfed only by the Louisiana Purchase, completed in 1803, which doubled the size of the U.S.
Its annual giving has long dwarfed that of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Last year, the port handled the equivalent of 8.9 million shipping containers, dwarfing the next biggest East Coast port at Savannah, Ga., which handled 5.7 million boxes.
Ultimately, it’s an opportunity that could one day dwarf the auto business—and a chance to escape the purgatory they have been in for decades.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
