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
“Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock, these were figures that helped inspire me to not compromise in the commitment to the bigness of the audience’s experience,” Peele says.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 3, 2023
Life’s saving graces come in all sizes, with the small ones often accumulating and surprising us with their bigness when we least expect it.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 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
I could feel the bigness of it and the unknownness of it and a pent-up tension—whether of tears or anger, I couldn't tell.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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