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very large in size, number, or effect
- In high school, I didn't have quite the massive physique I have now-'Part 1 (87% in)
- Patrick didn't know if there were booby traps or bombs in the school; he didn't know how many casualties there were; he didn't know how many wounded Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Alice Peck Day Hospital could take; he didn't know how to go about processing a crime scene this massive.Part 1 (6% in)
- Once, a client who'd been abused had dissociated so massively that Lacy was worried she would not be able to reach her again and bring her back in time to push.Part 1 (12% in)
- He had no fucking idea how to process a nightmare this massive, and yet he had to pretend that he did, because everyone else was looking to him to be in charge.Part 1 (13% in)
- He drew his gun and crept into the bowels of the kitchen, past racks with monstrous cans of tomato sauce and green beans and processed nacho cheese, past massive rolls of plastic wrap and Sysco tinfoil, to the refrigerated room where meats and produce were stored.Part 1 (13% in)
- Diana looked around at the sheer volume of evidence-clothing, guns, blood spatter, spent rounds, dropped bookbags, lost sneakers-and realized that she was not the only one with a massive job ahead of her.Part 1 (14% in)
- 'What we have is a massive amount of information,' he told the crowd assembled before him.Part 1 (18% in)
- In fact, she'd argue that in a case with the massive media coverage this one had, it would take someone with a defense background-like Alex's-to truly be impartial to the shooter.Part 1 (31% in)
- Alex tried to imagine what it would be like to be this girl, completely overwhelmed by the massive stature of this legal system, unable to speak its language.Part 1 (42% in)
- More people leaped out of the windows of the north tower; then there was a massive roar as if the ground itself were opening its jaws.Part 1 (43% in)
- It was massive, majestic.Part 1 (47% in)
- During the day, however, he plowed through the massive amount of information to be processed, and the even more massive amount of information to be gleaned.Part 1 (51% in)
- During the day, however, he plowed through the massive amount of information to be processed, and the even more massive amount of information to be gleaned.Part 1 (51% in)
- When you started to sort out the patterns in data this massive, you didn't know where you'd twist or turn, how steep the fall or how soaring the heights.Part 1 (62% in)
- Lincoln, Massachusetts, was a suburb of Boston that had once been farmland and that now was a hodgepodge of massive homes with ridiculously high real estate values.Part 1 (66% in)
- It was coming back down, because climbing up with the rope between my legs, I got a massive boner.Part 1 (87% in)
- You could practically feel the waist of your jeans getting snugger and your face breaking out-and yet, when the cafeteria lady held out her massive spoonful, Josie couldn't resist.Part 1 (97% in)
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