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
The bigness of it makes literal the career it contains.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
Jerome, who won an Emmy for “When They See Us,” plays to his apparent size with some exaggerated expressions, even as his soft features mitigate that bigness; his eyes are always asking questions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 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
Even those people who joy in numbers and are impressed with bigness are beginning to worry, gradually becoming aware that there must be a saturation point and the progress may be a progression toward strangulation.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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