colossal
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“To spend billions of dollars to build a subway under a street that has no ridership would have been a colossal mistake,” Yaroslavsky told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
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
Despite the colossal spending in the United States, for example, opinion polls regularly show that Americans remain highly sceptical about the technology's benefits, and more worried that it spells doom for millions of jobs.
From Barron's • Apr. 25, 2026
Other men who have made colossal errors have retained their posts.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026
On a map of the United States it is an incidental smudge of green, but on foot the scale of it is colossal.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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