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- adverb In a
colossal manner, or to a colossal extent
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Examples
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I mean, really — for the representative of a Moslem country (a vice consul, no less, according to the reports I read!) to make a “joke” about terrorism while on board a domestic American flight was not only in colossally bad taste, it was staggeringly stupid.
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It will now examine whether this will deliver value for money after the last one was described as "colossally inefficient" by campaign groups.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Rowena Mason 2011
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They can also break down colossally, which is what happened Thursday.
Forbes.com: News 2010
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By the time of the 1929 crash financial, not vehicular, Ford would sell over fifteen million of his colossally popular cars, a number roughly half of all cars then registered in the United States.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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By the time of the 1929 crash financial, not vehicular, Ford would sell over fifteen million of his colossally popular cars, a number roughly half of all cars then registered in the United States.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Frankly, Coach was surprised Fred made it all the way to spring quarter his senior year without a colossally idiotic slipup—or getting caught, anyway.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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Lee Swanson was a house of a man: timber-boned, colossally footed, but he moved through the world in whiffles and whispers.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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Frankly, Coach was surprised Fred made it all the way to spring quarter his senior year without a colossally idiotic slipup—or getting caught, anyway.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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So many hearty congratulations and sincere thanks to the director-general and everyone in Canberra who made this colossally precious gift so widely and generously available to every citizen of the world to harness, enjoy, and learn from, no matter where you happen to live.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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What a colossally amateurish move for a politician to make: setting a 3 year deadline for the end to the war in Afghanistan, as Obama is going to announce tonight.
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