as in vast
unusually large
the seemingly mountainous obstacles he had to overcome while growing up
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Recent Examples of mountainous
The mountainous coastline has long been a go-to escape for celebs like Rihanna, Grace Jones, and Alicia Keys because of its quiet beaches, hidden coves, and tropical jungles.
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Essence, 29 Jan. 2025
Blowing snow, whiteout conditions, and icy roads will make driving treacherous, especially in mountainous regions and along highways.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
Amid a mountainous landscape, described by Coronado and Landin as great for location scouting, the city has been at the mercy of Mexican/American relations for centuries.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2025
In this mountainous region, spring temperatures will be slightly warmer than usual; precipitation will range from slightly above average to average.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
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Essence, 29 Jan. 2025
Blowing snow, whiteout conditions, and icy roads will make driving treacherous, especially in mountainous regions and along highways.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 15 Feb. 2025
Amid a mountainous landscape, described by Coronado and Landin as great for location scouting, the city has been at the mercy of Mexican/American relations for centuries.
—Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 13 Feb. 2025
In this mountainous region, spring temperatures will be slightly warmer than usual; precipitation will range from slightly above average to average.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mountainous
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Of course, the vast majority of these conscious-community figures aren’t leading cults, breaking laws, or condoning anyone who is, but there’s an openness to unconventional beliefs and conspiracy theories that the more predatory characters take advantage of.—
David Peisner,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2025
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For much of her life, our writer consumed vast quantities of sugar every day.—
Emily Baumgaertner Nunn,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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The 27-track album became a huge catalyst for the recent spotlight on Black country artists and the genre's roots.—
Caché McClay,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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To secure their release, many detainees surrendered huge sums of money and gave the government control of their companies.—
Ephrat Livni,
New York Times,
20 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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One of the puzzles in Animal Well (2024) requires memorizing a route to escape a gigantic ghost cat.—
Lewis Gordon,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Trump demanded $500 billion in Ukraine's minerals as repayment for U.S. assistance, but Zelenskyy retorted that American aid hasn't come close to that enormous figure.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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Lower fertility rates seem correlated with the perception that proper child development depends upon enormous amounts of personal attention.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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The pair re-teamed at the Academy Awards the following year for the broadcast’s introductory sketch, which featured Palance dragging a giant Oscar statue onstage, with Crystal (again the host) riding it.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
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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The Senate's version would break it up into two pieces for the sake of speed, and the House's version would wrap it into one massive package in the hopes of squeezing it through their narrow Republican majority.—
Riley Beggin,
USA TODAY,
22 Feb. 2025
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Not refining the budget on paper by playing with numbers, but by being productively smart and undertaking a massive effort of production engineering.—
John Bleasdale,
Variety,
21 Feb. 2025
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Of course, Cena vs. Rhodes sounds like a tremendous WrestleMania main event on paper, too, a bout that WWE fans would be easily invested in given how popular Cena and Rhodes have been at their peaks.—
Blake Oestriecher,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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This is a time of tremendous grief and pain for those who knew and loved him.—
Caroline Frost,
Deadline,
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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“Mountainous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mountainous. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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