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
What Reiner carried from “Family” into his later appearances was a sort of bigness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2025
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
Being big, even in a time of more bigness, is an exception that relies on variable, ever-changing circumstances.
From Slate ● Feb. 20, 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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