colossal
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Mick Cater, who booked the concerts on behalf of Island Records, told Mr. Salewicz: “Bob never really sold colossal amounts of records. But he sold concert tickets by the wheelbarrow-load.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
As colossal as it appears in photographs, it is surprisingly small when you come upon it, tucked away in its wooded setting in the Albert Einstein Science Park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
The recent history books, then, offer a less than clear guide and Burnham has inherited a colossal majority.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
“Round the decay/Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare/The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
A smell of tender mushrooms, of wood-flower fungus, of old and concentrated outdoors impregnated the air of the bedroom as it was breathed by the colossal old man weatherbeaten by the sun and the rain.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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