stupendous

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The S&P 500 index, even with its recent wobbles, has returned a stupendous 273% over the past decade, or more than 14% a year.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

A couple of weeks before Christmas 1900, he sold the mine for a stupendous $100,000, which equates to about $3.7 million today.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2025

His stupendous vistas are overwhelming in that format.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2024

Her ripe timbre signaled that she probably would be better suited to the Act IV potion aria, and more than that, she was stupendous.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2024

Miss Trixie snarled with the stupendous false teeth that Mrs. Levy had just bought her.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole