bigness
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Origin of bigness
Example Sentences
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“I was pretty naive to the bigness, the vastness of it,” Shiffrin said of her first Games in 2014 on a recent episode of her podcast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
“Its visceral nature, its immersiveness. Traditionally, Imax has been applied for wideness and bigness and ‘overwhelmingness,’ you can say.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
But at some point, that bigness is exactly what audiences came to predict from him.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2023
Jillani, the founder of the Pakistan Eats blog, said trying to re-create the bigness of Eid and its feasts was “exhausting.”
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
That fall in the false warmth of a Brooklyn Indian summer, Katie sat on the stoop and held her sickly baby against the bigness which was another child soon to be born.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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