colossal
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To support Henry Bacon’s Parthenon-like building and Daniel Chester French’s colossal statue, builders had to sink 122 hollow steel cylinders deep into the marshy soil to reach bedrock, then fill each pillar with concrete.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
A powerhouse version of Dangerous Woman claps like thunder; and Grande's vocal riffs on Safety Net are so tremendously colossal they should be registered as the eighth wonder of the world.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
Tech firms were once again bearing the brunt of the selling owing to growing concerns about the colossal sums ploughed into AI hardware, factories and research, with many now questioning when they will see returns.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Beneath this colossal fortress, fires glared and furnaces smoked in the darkness of early dawn, and from many miles away Ruta Skadi heard the clang of hammers and the pounding of great mills.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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