sheer
Example Sentences
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Worries are building about the sheer number of power-hungry data centers that will need to be built to drive the AI boom.
However, the sheer size of the HR 8799 planets and their wide orbits puzzled scientists.
From Science Daily
Rising over the tops of the trees directly ahead of them was a sheer cliff of red-gold rock glistening in the first rays of the sun.
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Ultimately, the sheer number of shadow vessels poses a simple problem of resources.
From BBC
The space in front of them was now a sheer wall.
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