enormity
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“I am super positive on AI. I think it’s the best thing that has happened, and it probably will be the solution to the enormity of debt and spending that we have.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
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
The most terrible thing, and now I've said it out loud, and the enormity of that makes me gasp.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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
The Lincoln Center Festival once again offers a full plate of international oddities and enormities.
From The New Yorker ● May 15, 2015
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
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