magnitude

Example Sentences

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“He immediately understood the magnitude of the World Cup and instructed his administration to help. We’re talking about the most powerful country in the world, and there are things that must be taken into account.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

That makes them about seven orders of magnitude, or 10 million times, more energetic than particles accelerated inside the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

"It was quite simply the most important soccer match the US has played for the last two generations," Ley reads, having to spell out to American viewers the magnitude of the result.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

“An event of this magnitude is unprecedented in the history of our bilateral relationship,” Sheinbaum said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 6, 2026

His were the feelings of a point in geometry, existing mysteriously on the shortest distance between two points: or of a line, drawn on a plane surf act v/hich had length, breadth but no magnitude.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White