sheer
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The role of universities and transport investment is also critical, but not every town and city in the UK has the same raw materials, for example in terms of sheer number of young graduates.
From BBC
His superpower is enraging his opponents to the point that they can’t help but make a mistake out of sheer frustration.
The instrument also paved the way to an aesthetics of electricity—feedback, distortion, fuzz, sheer volume—that led to such genres as heavy metal, punk, grunge and shoegaze.
Disney’s initial skepticism and the scene’s sheer impact on food both beg the question: How did one of the messiest foods imaginable become shorthand for romance?
From Salon
Worries are building about the sheer number of power-hungry data centers that will need to be built to drive the AI boom.
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