humongous
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All eyes turned to the Permian, a humongous oil field that spans West Texas and New Mexico and pumps roughly half of the country’s crude.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026
“Yet humongous numbers pepper the news, and as citizens, we are asked to make sense of the material.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025
She said the impact of his death would be "absolutely humongous throughout the boxing community".
From BBC • Sep. 14, 2025
She remains recumbent for an entire number, singing to a skeleton, before the bones around her reveal themselves as dancers in masks, convulsing to the humongous bassline synths of “Disease.”
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025
It is the first time Werner has heard Volkheimer laugh, and his countenance changes; he becomes less menacing and more like a benevolent, humongous child.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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