Bunyanesque

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bunyanesque
Adjective
  • But SpaceX is not remotely ready to deliver, with serial failures of its mammoth Starship rocket delaying development of the lander.
    Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Supply chain bottlenecks that have long constrained an expansion of electricity grids are showing signs of easing, but plenty of other mammoth challenges remain, an executive at a major power infrastructure firm told Semafor.
    Prashant Rao, semafor.com, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • For the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, magnetic storms, triggered by colossal solar explosions, repeatedly disrupted those networks.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Just down the street from the colossal blue Scientology center (one of LA’s top locations for taking an ironic selfie) is Found Oyster, a delightful and perennially (pleasantly) crowded seafood restaurant inspired by clam shacks on the East Coast.
    Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Ball went on to collaborate with Throbbing Gristle’s Genesis P-Orridge and founded several more groups—including a duo, with musician and producer Richard Norris, called the Grid, which became a prodigious rave act in the 1990s.
    Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The Supersports, with a prodigious 700-horsepower W12.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • By the late 1870s, he was asked to take part in the gargantuan task of evaluating and cataloguing the results of the five-year Challenger expedition—an ambitious British global research voyage, the first ever dedicated purely to science.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Then Addison Barger set off seismometers across southern Ontario with a gargantuan grand slam to push Toronto up 9-2.
    Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • That would be Thomas Paine, the man credited with turning the American Revolution from a complicated Colonial fracas into a titanic struggle for the soul of liberty itself.
    Matthew Redmond, The Conversation, 9 Oct. 2025
  • From the humble red dwarfs to the titanic supergiants, stars come in a dazzling array of sizes, colors, and lifespans.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • In the far distant future of our planet, will memories persist about cosmic disasters that wiped out entire populations?
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Kurma is a tortoise and represents endurance, patience and cosmic time.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Plus, the cash flow from its chemical business is gigantic.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Titanic, gigantic GodzillaStomped on Tokyo, then on Manila.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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 29 Oct. 2025.

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