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colossal

[kuh-los-uhl] / kəˈlɒs əl /


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In the season to beat all seasons there's a recurring question out there, even among day trippers to Scottish football - who's going to win this colossal battle for the Premiership title?

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2026

The colossal concrete building, which floats over the corridor and has been likened by some to a freeway overpass, shielded visitors from the bright sun.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

Other men who have made colossal errors have retained their posts.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

It wasn’t the product of colossal sums of money.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 14, 2026

In November, he paid eighteen pence to a Uruguayan farmer for a piece of a colossal skull of yet another extinct mammal—the rhinolike Toxodon, with giant squirrel teeth—that had once roamed the plains.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee




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