as in huge
unusually large
that's a tremendous amount of work for one person
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Recent Examples of tremendous
As the cores of these stars crush down, the stars' outer layers, and most of their masses, are blown away in tremendous core-collapse supernovas.
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
He is played by Ethan Hawke, a mainstay of Linklater’s movies, in a remarkable amalgam of bitterness, exuberance, drollery, tenderness, frustration, and tremendous artistic passion.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
Founders bring tremendous capabilities to something nurturing a small brand, but scaling a company is a very different skill set.
—Evan Clark, WWD, 27 Feb. 2025
Matthews Mayor John Higdon said the kids center is a tremendous opportunity for the town that will provide fun and educational opportunities for children and families.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2025
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Robert Lea, Space.com, 28 Feb. 2025
He is played by Ethan Hawke, a mainstay of Linklater’s movies, in a remarkable amalgam of bitterness, exuberance, drollery, tenderness, frustration, and tremendous artistic passion.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2025
Founders bring tremendous capabilities to something nurturing a small brand, but scaling a company is a very different skill set.
—Evan Clark, WWD, 27 Feb. 2025
Matthews Mayor John Higdon said the kids center is a tremendous opportunity for the town that will provide fun and educational opportunities for children and families.
—Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 26 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tremendous
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Ensuring a few words wouldn’t spark a huge conflagration that could be splashed across social media, Steph Curry qualified his thought.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
4 Mar. 2025
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Running over a year off-Broadway has been a dream come true, and has set us up for huge success nationwide.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
4 Mar. 2025
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The decision to remove the enormous mural near the White House comes after a U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., introduced legislation earlier this week that gave D.C. an ultimatum: either paint over the slogan or risk losing federal funding.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
8 Mar. 2025
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There are also the now-traditional summer preseason schedules of European clubs who spend a few weeks in America playing before enormous crowds before kicking off their new seasons back home.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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What to Do Sure, wine tasting and farm-to-table dining is why many travelers come to the Willamette Valley to begin with, but its vast beauty shouldn't be wasted.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
7 Mar. 2025
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The two lone wolves traverse a wasteland of vast canyons, derelict cityscapes and blazing oil fields, digitally rendered on blue screens.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
7 Mar. 2025
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Acoustic Sounds occupies a hodgepodge of squat industrial buildings in Salina, a city of about 50,000 near the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states, where grain elevators and a gigantic frozen pizza plant jut out from the flat plains landscape.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
7 Mar. 2025
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Some knobby with new growth, some short or gigantic, some suffering or shrunken, some reaching over paths and roads.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
5 Mar. 2025
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Paying the high acquisition cost to get him would be a massive risk.—
Peter Baugh,
The Athletic,
6 Mar. 2025
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Additionally, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon each signed separate nuclear energy agreements late last year in anticipation of the massive energy demands of their AI plans.—
Britney Nguyen,
Quartz,
5 Mar. 2025
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This immense utility makes their protection critical, as mismanagement or breaches can lead to catastrophic financial loss and eroded trust among clients and stakeholders.—
Lior Lamesh,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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And many of us, about 92 percent, have been trying to cope with immense dismay and stress since last November.—
Essence,
Essence,
3 Mar. 2025
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In a recent report on the giant theater chain Cinemark, the research firm MoffettNathanson started with a look at the continuing dismal state of theatrical exhibition.—
David Bloom,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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There are spells, curses, vendettas, a twist villain, giant dragons who turn into humanoid warriors and many other creatures populating the world of this gargantuan feat of eye-popping computer animation.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2025
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There is a mutual readiness to work to restore relations and gradually solve a colossal amount of systemic strategic problems in the global architecture.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Today’s state-of-the-art LLMs, capable of generating text, writing codes and analyzing data, rely on colossal infrastructure for training, storage and inference.—
Gerui Wang,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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“Tremendous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tremendous. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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