"Gargantuan" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1896 July 15, “Notes”, in The Chap-Book, volume V, number 5, H. S. Stone & Company, page 240",
          "text": "Magnified to Gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over it is absolutely disgusting.",
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        {
          "ref": "1920, P[hilip] B[ertram] M[urray] Allan, “Books Which Form the Library”, in The Book-Hunter at Home, London: Philip Allan and Co., page 88",
          "text": "Though a list of the great writers contain all the constituents of an Epicurean feast, yet to most of us it resembles the menu of a Gargantuan banquet.",
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          "ref": "1932, The New York Times Book Review, pages 2 and 26",
          "text": "Wyndham Lewis is equipped for his task with an amazing vocabulary of diatribe and derision, a spleenful of gall, and sense for the absurd—the monstrous, the Gargantuan, the preposterously incongruous—which, when disciplined, makes his best passages uproariously effective.[…]with a Gargantuan art unexampled in our time.",
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          "ref": "1991 November 4, R.F. Black, S. Dentzer, “Bush’s October Surprise”, in U.S. News & World Report, volume 111, number 19",
          "text": "The telecommunications giant hopes that this write-off, which contributed to its Gargantuan $1.8 billion third-quarter loss, will clear the way for a steady stream of future earnings.",
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        {
          "ref": "1992 October 1, David Fricke, “U2 Finds What It’s Looking For”, in Rolling Stone",
          "text": "Two East German Trabant cars attached to huge mechanical arms and outfitted with spotlights scan the crowd like alien prison sentries while a patchwork video quilt of Gargantuan screens, multi-image Vidiwalls and TV monitors spews words and pictures with exhausting velocity — Rock & Roll Mission Control running on amphetamine fast forward.",
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          "ref": "1997 February, Teresa F.A. Alves, “In Praise Of Saul’s Soul”, in American Studies International, volume XXXV, number 1, page 37",
          "text": "“Oh, you can’t get away from rhythm, Romilayu […] You can’t get away from it,” claims the “fantastic” protagonist who adds to the rings of Hank Morgan’s exploits a truly Gargantuan dimension.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Stephen Dixon, “Winter”, in New England Review, page 161",
          "text": "I’ve shoveled this Gargantuan driveway the last twelve winters.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 February 20, “Religion and Science”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, archived from the original on 2007-06-09",
          "text": "They therefore present what he calls a Lilliputian challenge to unguided Darwinism; if he is right, they present it with a Gargantuan challenge as well.",
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        {
          "ref": "1896 July 15, “Notes”, in The Chap-Book, volume V, number 5, H. S. Stone & Company, page 240",
          "text": "Magnified to Gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over it is absolutely disgusting.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, P[hilip] B[ertram] M[urray] Allan, “Books Which Form the Library”, in The Book-Hunter at Home, London: Philip Allan and Co., page 88",
          "text": "Though a list of the great writers contain all the constituents of an Epicurean feast, yet to most of us it resembles the menu of a Gargantuan banquet.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1932, The New York Times Book Review, pages 2 and 26",
          "text": "Wyndham Lewis is equipped for his task with an amazing vocabulary of diatribe and derision, a spleenful of gall, and sense for the absurd—the monstrous, the Gargantuan, the preposterously incongruous—which, when disciplined, makes his best passages uproariously effective.[…]with a Gargantuan art unexampled in our time.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1991 November 4, R.F. Black, S. Dentzer, “Bush’s October Surprise”, in U.S. News & World Report, volume 111, number 19",
          "text": "The telecommunications giant hopes that this write-off, which contributed to its Gargantuan $1.8 billion third-quarter loss, will clear the way for a steady stream of future earnings.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992 October 1, David Fricke, “U2 Finds What It’s Looking For”, in Rolling Stone",
          "text": "Two East German Trabant cars attached to huge mechanical arms and outfitted with spotlights scan the crowd like alien prison sentries while a patchwork video quilt of Gargantuan screens, multi-image Vidiwalls and TV monitors spews words and pictures with exhausting velocity — Rock & Roll Mission Control running on amphetamine fast forward.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 February, Teresa F.A. Alves, “In Praise Of Saul’s Soul”, in American Studies International, volume XXXV, number 1, page 37",
          "text": "“Oh, you can’t get away from rhythm, Romilayu […] You can’t get away from it,” claims the “fantastic” protagonist who adds to the rings of Hank Morgan’s exploits a truly Gargantuan dimension.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Stephen Dixon, “Winter”, in New England Review, page 161",
          "text": "I’ve shoveled this Gargantuan driveway the last twelve winters.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 February 20, “Religion and Science”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, archived from the original on 2007-06-09",
          "text": "They therefore present what he calls a Lilliputian challenge to unguided Darwinism; if he is right, they present it with a Gargantuan challenge as well.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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