enormity
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Looking back, Ashby realizes he allowed the enormity of the situation to poison his mind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
“I am super positive on AI. I think it’s the best thing that has happened, and it probably will be the solution to the enormity of debt and spending that we have.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
“We just couldn’t comprehend the enormity of it. There was some comfort in watching it as a group. But not much.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Doesn’t exactly measure up to the enormity of the classics, does it?
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Still, despite these significant developments, there seems to be a lack of appreciation for the enormity of the crisis at hand.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
In recent years, he has worked on an increasingly vast scale, as he searches for the most minimal means to convey nature’s immersive enormities: dark forests, distant escarpments, moonlight on water, wintry fields.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2022
A minor peccadillo alongside the enormities rightly laid at the door of your man.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
The Lincoln Center Festival once again offers a full plate of international oddities and enormities.
From The New Yorker ● May 15, 2015
Such musings worried lawyers and civil-liberties campaigners, who are accustomed to governments reacting to enormities with draconian new laws.
From Economist ● Aug. 28, 2014
Fear at the enormities of the forbidden kept her desires delicate, wire and bone.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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