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monstrous

[mon-struhs] / ˈmɒn strəs /




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“This is a monstrous record,” Robert Christgau wrote, while Rolling Stone said it was a “muddled-sounding, much-hyped attempt to realign Diamond with the rock audience.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Theo Kogan’s voice was — and is, in the Webster Hall footage from 2021 — clear and monstrous and the perfect voice to sing these songs.

From Salon • Apr. 28, 2026

It became clear that what at first appeared to him and his father as another of the floods that afflicted Mystic every few years grew inexorably through the night until it became monstrous.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

The Russian foreign ministry described the strike as a "monstrous crime against the peaceful population".

From Barron's • Mar. 11, 2026

The monstrous wave was made of a thick brown syrup: molasses.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis




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