colossal
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Lawrence lifted England to 177-7 in their second innings, with a lead of 357 looking colossal given the assistance on offer for bowlers and Pakistan's weak batting.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
"It's a colossal failure of Israeli strategy regarding Iran," said Danny Citrinowicz, a former top Israeli intelligence analyst on Iran who is now at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 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
To support Henry Bacon’s Parthenon-like building and Daniel Chester French’s colossal statue, builders had to sink 122 hollow steel cylinders deep into the marshy soil to reach bedrock, then fill each pillar with concrete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
It turned out that under the western United States there was a huge cauldron of magma, a colossal volcanic hot spot which erupted cataclysmically every 600,000 years or so.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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