Bunyanesque

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Bunyanesque
Adjective
  • The mammoth project is expected to be built in phases with the first one, Fernández said, expected by 2029.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025
  • Getting to the final and then winning the Club World Cup would be a major statement for either side without mentioning its mammoth prize money, and Madrid and PSG now stand in each other’s way of achieving that.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • It’s believed that the 26-year-old will earn a yearly salary of around $23m, a colossal figure considering his wages in Bergamo amounted to $3.1m per-season.
    Emmet Gates, Forbes.com, 10 July 2025
  • Swansea, who finished a colossal 86 places above Wrexham as recently as 2019-20, will be their divisional peers next time around — the first time the clubs have been in the same division since 2003.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • By age 11, Stone had become proficient in keyboards, guitar, bass and drums, showcasing a prodigious talent that would define his career.
    Ana Gutierrez, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • But perhaps none of Apple’s prodigious partnerships is having a bigger impact in the film’s first days in theaters than IMAX, the large-format theater operator whose screens have generated nearly a quarter of F1’s opening weekend take at the box office.
    David Bloom, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025
Adjective
  • Paul voted no after objecting for months to lifting the nation’s borrowing authority by $5 trillion as part of the gargantuan bill.
    Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 2 July 2025
  • The gargantuan Toyota Motor plant in Georgetown, for one, has announced plans to invest more than $1 billion in electric vehicle manufacturing.
    Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • If the weather cooperates, either would be a titanic home for the NHL from a game presentation standpoint.
    Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 10 July 2025
  • Only this time, these corporate titans are looking less titanic.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 9 July 2025
Adjective
  • Our view of the Summer Triangle will become all the more spectacular on the nights surrounding the new moon phase on July 24, at which time the bright ribbon of light from the Milky Way may be visible from dark sky areas, tumbling directly through the cosmic triangle.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 12 July 2025
  • The space telescope, which launched in 1999 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, continues to provide data allowing scientists to make new cosmic discoveries.
    Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 12 July 2025
Adjective
  • George Shea, who still hosts the competition, helped turn the homespun event into a gigantic spectacle.
    Elise Hammond, CNN Money, 4 July 2025
  • Israel doesn’t have any heavy bombers, stealthy or otherwise, capable of carrying such gigantic bombs.
    Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 4 July 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 19 Jul. 2025.

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