monumentally
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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CEOs make decisions every day; any one decision is not as monumentally important as it is for an artist preparing for a new album or to perform in a movie.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
The Supreme Court therefore faces a decision with monumentally high stakes.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2025
As an encore for this unhackneyed recital, Malofeev turned Rachmaninoff’s ultra-hackneyed Prelude in C Minor into something so monumentally thunderous that it nearly overwhelmed all that had come before it.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2025
It comes on the heels of “Succession,” HBO’s monumentally successful drama that ended last year and was based not-so-loosely on the Murdoch family.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2024
That Parr was a worthy subject precisely because he did nothing, because he was so monumentally good at doing nothing?
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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