colossal
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Other men who have made colossal errors have retained their posts.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026
Any extra efforts could worry investors who are already fretting -- bond yields hit records in January -- about Japan's colossal debts.
From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026
The pitch remained flat but the weight of a colossal target was too great.
From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026
Under our feet, massive anomalies distort our planet’s magnetic field: Manhattan-size rocks, colossal buried meteorites, chunks of crust that solidified when the poles were flipped.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
I fling open the door, climb the stairs, and rush outside to find myself not in a hallway but on the deck of a colossal ship.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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