outsize
Example Sentences
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“I don’t have shame about the fact that it’s been hard. I have never met a more humbling experience,” she said with an outsize emphasis on “never.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
While actuators have been used in humanoid robots and research labs for decades, outsize demand for them only emerged recently.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
These unexpected extras—a few perfume samples or a tchotchke tucked into a shopping bag—aren’t lavish but often produce outsize delight, like when an order of 12 bagels becomes a baker’s dozen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
The outsize nature of the production invites overacting.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Now his legs and arms were so emaciated that I could see all the bones in them, and his knee and elbow joints looked outsize, with the flesh shrunk away.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
