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monumental

[mon-yuh-men-tl] / ˌmɒn jəˈmɛn tl /


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The fire also left the company with the monumental task of removing approximately 85 million pounds of food, including meat, that had been kept inside the cold-storage warehouse.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2026

Nolan stood his horse on two legs to make it more dynamic and monumental.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

After being asked to bat first the Steelbacks survived a monumental collapse, losing their final eight wickets for 31 to post 169, opener Ricardo Vasconcelos providing the backbone with 88.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

With only a handful of lyrics, she revisits a million lifetimes replete with monumental change and insights only an artist of her caliber could convey.

From Salon Jul. 8, 2026

Native peoples had created town sites, farms, monumental earthworks, and networks of roads, and they had devised a wide variety of governments, some as complex as any in the modern world.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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