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“It just felt astronomically difficult to get to the same position in negotiation,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 19, 2025

Kitsch also mentions the astronomically high divorce rate among SEALs.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2025

Also, if you start thinking about the complexity and the information in any human system, it's such an astronomically big number that it starts not making any sense to talk about it that way.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2025

It's no surprise then that passenger EV sales have grown astronomically by over 2,000% in less than five years - going from a low base of 4,700 annually to a 100,000 cars.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

Hence archaeology in Japan is supported by astronomically large budgets and draws public attention to a degree inconceivable anywhere else in the world.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond