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Meanings of mammoth in English

So exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth.

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Examples for "gigantic"
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The moon glides up in the north; the rocks cast gigantic shadows.
Pan
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Armed with information, experts can exert a gigantic, if unspoken, leverage: fear.
Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of ever...
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His gigantic figure was never seen in the doorways; he was failing.
Absalom's Hair
4
A gigantic experiment called communism in a laboratory called Russia proved that.
The Red Queen
5
Front-de-Boeuf heads the defenders; I see his gigantic form above the press.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
Usage of mammoth in English
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Photo: CCDU The Government has given itself a mammoth task in Canterbury.
Radio NZ
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The mammoth fee is subject to the company meeting certain performance targets.
The South African
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They cast half-moons over the mammoth stone house, illuminating the late hour.
Blood Rights
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Thompson said even setting up convoy access had been a mammoth task.
Radio NZ
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It has become a mammoth industry, comprising an array of financial products.
Reuters
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One of just several MPs left after Labor's mammoth 2012 election defeat.
News.com.au
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Brecie said they will all be going north to hunt mammoth soon.
The Valley of Horses
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Ms Beverley Cooper-Flynn TD's mammoth libel action against RTE finished last month.
The Irish Times
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Traditionally, the bride's parents bear the lion's share of this mammoth event.
BBC
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It's something like, 'If you can't find water, look for a mammoth.'
The Plains of Passage
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In such mammoth undertakings the musical arrangement was the work of orchestrators.
The new yorker
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It will be a mammoth task to dislodge Labour and Ms Ardern.
News.com.au
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Their presence meant the material came from an elephant or mammoth tusk.
Bones of the Lost
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And developing the remote site will require a mammoth investment in infrastructure.
Reuters
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Schuster's team was concerned solely with sequencing, not bringing back the mammoth.
Wired
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Mayor Ray Nagin's administration has also struggled with a mammoth rebuilding task.
Reuters
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