as in voluminous
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Recent Examples of massy
While the attempts to create massy cinema land fine for most parts, Dhawan does not quite emerge as the larger-than-life south-Indian hero set to rule the audience merely with his presence.
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Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
All objects that have mass interact with other massy objects—that’s called gravitational interaction.
—Wired, 6 Nov. 2019
Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
All objects that have mass interact with other massy objects—that’s called gravitational interaction.
—Wired, 6 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for massy
Adjective
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This history was well-covered by a 2008–2015 inquiry by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, which collected voluminous personal histories and documents on the residential-school system that Canada had operated for a century in conjunction with several religious bodies.—
The Editors,
National Review,
28 Feb. 2025
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Mixing masculine and feminine elements with voluminous lines and a minimal design, his collections aren’t standard ready to wear.—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The $53 for this new fee is going for many new employees to do such things as picking up bulky items and e-waste.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Mar. 2025
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This can allow room for bulkier items like stand mixers without adding too much clutter to your countertops.—
Patricia Shannon,
Southern Living,
2 Mar. 2025
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For a movie whose chief anthem is an advertisement for the joys of defying gravity, Wicked is surprisingly leaden, with a promise of more of the same to come.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
TIME,
20 Nov. 2024
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Sources of support Back at the Denny’s parking lot, the sky had turned leaden gray, and Mckenzie bummed a cigarette from her best friend, Christina Bojorquez.—
Gale Holland,
Anchorage Daily News,
17 July 2022
Adjective
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Disney has played an outsize role in the culture wars, so its decision was particularly thrilling for conservatives.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
4 Mar. 2025
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Many in attendance had traveled from Iran, Iraq and Yemen, offering a reminder of Mr. Nasrallah’s outsize role uniting Shiites across the region against Israel.—
Christina Goldbaum,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The elephantine dance is constant: Each load is dumped, pushed, and dropped into a pit immense enough to hold 15,000 tons of waste (more than the city’s entire daily output).—
Curbed,
Curbed,
12 Aug. 2022
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Any attempt to resurrect the mammoth faces an elephantine gauntlet of challenges, including the DNA-shattering effects of frost and time, and the rather unhelpful reproductive tract of the eventual surrogate parent—the elephant.—
Ed Yong,
Discover Magazine,
6 June 2012
Adjective
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These protections, granted at a time when the auto industry boomed and no hint of competition from foreign automakers crested the horizon, would not be considered burdensome for the Detroit Three for decades.—
Jackie Charniga,
USA TODAY,
26 Feb. 2025
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Today’s plutocrat, on the other hand, sees the cultural élite as part of the burdensome past.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Because both actors look like lumpish proletarian versions of Ingmar Bergman stars — Alma Pöysti, radiant yet benumbed, plays Ansa like a dish-towel Bibi Andersson, and Jussi Vatanen could be the schlump brother of Max von Sydow (with a dollop of Ryan Gosling).—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
23 May 2023
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Their bodies range from eely, jawless lampreys to flattened flounders to huge, lumpish ocean sunfish.—
Bob Holmes,
Discover Magazine,
21 May 2018
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“Massy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/massy. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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