colossal
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Other men who have made colossal errors have retained their posts.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026
Pacific time launch of the colossal Space Launch System rocket with four astronauts aboard.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
Under our feet, massive anomalies distort our planet’s magnetic field: Manhattan-size rocks, colossal buried meteorites, chunks of crust that solidified when the poles were flipped.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
A colossal Welsh failing to some eyes, a piece of Russell genius to others.
From BBC • Feb. 21, 2026
It turned out that under the western United States there was a huge cauldron of magma, a colossal volcanic hot spot which erupted cataclysmically every 600,000 years or so.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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