enormity
Example Sentences
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"Instead of being dumbstruck by the enormity of it, we can actually make progress toward an answer about why we're here in the universe."
From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026
Also notice that the true enormity of Africa comes across on this map.
From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026
The enormity of the challenge isn’t lost on Mohammad Reda Jalkhi, the new head of Syria’s National Commission for the Missing.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025
There’s an enormity in these nighttime shots of cars isolated in the darkness, chasing after the dust in their own headlights, looking so alone they may as well be on the moon.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2025
And in that moment, I felt the enormity of it all in a way that I never had before in a simulation.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Vocabulary lists containing enormity
Things Fall Apart
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