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adjective as in big, abundant
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Example Sentences
Seabirds can breed in very large colonies, sometimes consisting of several hundred thousand pairs.
The PM was asked by journalists if the UK should be preparing for nuclear war at a press conference to close the G20 summit of the world's largest economies in Brazil.
Kendall said this meant "small variations in the underlying numbers impacted can lead to much larger changes in the rounded headline numbers".
If the hostility displayed by Kennedy and Trump toward vaccination mandates becomes federal policy, we may well see more and larger outbreaks.
Trump reaffirmedhis long-time plan to enact “the largest deportation in American history” in a response to a Nov. 8 Truth Social post from Tom Fitton, president of the conservative group Judicial Watch.
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When To Use
What are other ways to say large?
In reference to the size and extent of concrete objects, large is somewhat formal, great is highly formal and even poetic, suggesting also that the object is notable or imposing, and big is the most general and most colloquial word: a large tree; a great oak; a big tree; a large field; great plains; a big field. When the reference is to degree or a quality, great is the usual word: great beauty; great mistake; great surprise; although big sometimes alternates with it in colloquial style: a big mistake; a big surprise; large is usually not used in reference to degree, but may be used in a quantitative reference: a large number (great number).
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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