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Like Amazon, which used its perch in e-commerce to build a powerhouse cloud computing business, Walmart has taken advantage of its mammoth retail base to grow with e-commerce, add on an advertising business and collect more dollars from membership programs.—
Evan Clark,
WWD,
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The film, which has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards, centers on the efforts of fictional protagonist László Tóth to realize a mammoth, bunkerlike, concrete structure that will house a community center in Pennsylvania.—
Michael Allen,
The Conversation,
27 Feb. 2025
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While most coffee cake recipes don’t involve any coffee at all, these colossal bakery-style muffins take the recipe name a bit more literally.—
Katlyn Moncada,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Feb. 2025
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Despite its colossal size, the look managed to exude an ethereal aura with its floaty, sheer layers and curved draping details on the sweetheart-neckline bodice.—
Justine Fisher,
People.com,
14 Feb. 2025
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Away from Johanne’s turbulent inner life, her writing also seeds tensions between — and within — her elders, as Karin sees and appreciates its prodigious literary value, while Kristin reads only a sequence of increasingly alarming revelations about her daughter.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
19 Feb. 2025
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Standing behind his mom wearing a pair of shades, Gen watched as Keys gave shout-outs to the many people who believed in her prodigious talent early in her career.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
4 Feb. 2025
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Smaller lenses and sensors have an impact on image quality, so expensive phones often have gargantuan camera arrays that can make phones top-heavy.—
Ryan Whitwam,
Ars Technica,
24 Feb. 2025
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As a cursed vampire hunter equipped initially with only a whip, the player was cast perilously in Dracula’s gargantuan mansion.—
Lewis Gordon,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Sources say that Lindo will play Dever’s boss at Monarch, the shady scientific organization that sometimes helps, sometimes hunts the titanic creatures.—
Borys Kit,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Colorado Avalanche star is out of the lineup for Canada in its titanic showdown with the United States at Bell Centre in the 4 Nations Face-Off because of an illness.—
Corey Masisak,
The Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2025
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Stern thinks the dwarf planet distinction is nonsensical—an arbitrary parsing of cosmic definitions.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
18 Feb. 2025
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But there is an earlier milestone that takes the band’s journey into the cosmic and consequential: On July 21, 1969, Led Zeppelin played The Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park, the same date that Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon.—
Steve Appleford,
SPIN,
17 Feb. 2025
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This is the Hoosiers’ second gigantic Quad 1 win in the past two weeks, including a win at Michigan State.—
Joe Rexrode,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
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In 2010 astronomers detected a gigantic gas cloud 31,000 light-years from Earth, on the other side of our galaxy.—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
20 Feb. 2025
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The five-story Osaka Castle, a recreation of the original keep (which was destroyed on several occasions), is built on solid cyclopean foundations, with mint green roof tiles and golden accoutrements that bear striking similarities with Nagoya Castle.—
CNN,
CNN,
19 Jan. 2022
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The wall was built with a range of construction techniques, including cyclopean masonry.—
Isis Davis-Marks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
2 Aug. 2021
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“Bunyanesque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Bunyanesque. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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