colossal
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"I cannot believe I am headlining this festival," Dean admitted to the crowd, reflecting on her colossal rise since she played the Big Weekend Introducing Stage in 2023.
From BBC • May 24, 2026
This followed an even more colossal loss in the previous year of 671 billion yen.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
“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
The kicker, which Calder admits in hindsight is a colossal red flag: He had to pay $12,132 to make the change.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026
He looked, in fact, very much like a colossal bowl of jelly, without the bowl.
From "The Phantom Tollbooth" by Norton Juster
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