enormity
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Doesn’t exactly measure up to the enormity of the classics, does it?
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Part of the problem was the sheer enormity of the initial outbreak, which quickly strained available stocks of tests, medications, and PPE, not to mention hospital beds and healthcare workers’ time.
From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026
A village in Kent is home to what is thought to be the world's largest scale model of the solar system and beyond, created to help people understand the enormity of space.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026
“I don’t know if the enormity of this has sunk in yet,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026
She knew he couldn’t possibly comprehend the enormity of what was about to happen to him.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
In recent years, he has worked on an increasingly vast scale, as he searches for the most minimal means to convey nature’s immersive enormities: dark forests, distant escarpments, moonlight on water, wintry fields.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2022
But, in a novel as obsessed with particulars as this one is, the effect is not to measure one trauma against another so much as to hold the enormities aloft, side by side and distinct.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2018
Such musings worried lawyers and civil-liberties campaigners, who are accustomed to governments reacting to enormities with draconian new laws.
From Economist ● Aug. 28, 2014
Then, as its enormities went on getting more and more enormous in every line, the book seemed something titanic, gigantic, awe-inspiring.
From Slate ● Jan. 23, 2013
Fear at the enormities of the forbidden kept her desires delicate, wire and bone.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
Vocabulary lists containing enormity
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