whopping

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It was 97 degrees in Camarillo on Tuesday, surpassing the daily temperature record by a whopping 11 degrees and the all-time March record by 3 degrees.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

A whopping $432 billion of that cash flow was driven by stock-based compensation, according to his math.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Weapons star Amy Madigan, meanwhile, is nominated for the second time, a whopping 40 years after her first nomination, for the aptly named Twice in a Lifetime.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

On Tuesday, he didn’t make even half of his shots, and he trudged to the free-throw line a whopping 43 times, connecting on 36 of those attempts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

Halliday’s first computer had been a TRS-80, with a whopping 16K of RAM.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline