How To Use Outsize In A Sentence
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Begun in about 3100 B.C. and altered during the next two millennia, Stonehenge incorporates outsize monoliths quarried far from its site on Salisbury Plain in southern England.
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The men worked extra shifts when malfunctions occurred: heavy machine parts and outsized tools had to be moved.
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With its wildly outsized fender flares, saucer-eyed round headlamps, squat fuselage, tapering roofline and curiously latent, not-quite-formed rear contours, the Juke looks like a Nissan Murano at the larval stage.
Nissan's Jazzy Juke, Imperfect on Purpose
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The baby boomers were a population frog moving through the snake of American cultural history, distending its shape by the outsize percentage of the population they represented.
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In this heartfelt tribute, friends and colleagues fondly remember an outsize personality.
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Third base once was a position flush with players with outsize offensive numbers.
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For better or worse, he became a master of the grand gesture, grappling with his inner demons and his outsize ego in front of a bemused public.
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So, when we head to Whitby for our holiday, I will take the usual array of beach wear - baggy tops, ankle-length skirts and outsize cardigans.
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The characters involved in this phase of railroading history get less outsized treatment than their predecessors.
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Retailers are glomming onto a new fashion among teens for outsize clothes.
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President Obama has chosen a less dramatic path -- moral suasion -- calling the outsized bonuses "shameful" and going several times to Wall Street to appeal for change.
Carla Seaquist: Recovery Without a Reckoning
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Many communities have created outsized expectations by letting patients use E.R.s for non-emergencies.
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It is a magical place, truly a dream for the roving angler; outsize black bream, sole, conger, plaice, wrasse, undulate rays, tope, pollack and mullet reside within casting distance of the shore.
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Where there is tufting and texture, furry sleeves and self-important lapels, outsize proportions cannot be far behind.
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His energy, his empathy, his self-indulgence, his appetites -- for food (unsated as it must be these days), for sex (maybe sated these days, maybe not), for attention, for power, for good deeds -- are all outsized.
Michael Takiff: Bill Clinton, Still the Biggest Dog in Town
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A larger frame woman would be more flattered by muted plaid, and no one really looks terrific in a completely outsized plaid.
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Retailers are glomming onto a new fashion among teens for outsize clothes.
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Success comes at a price, especially when loaded with an outsize personality.
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He was an outsized presence who, for illustrative example, took a visceral delight in hunting elephants and drinking the soup made from their trunks.
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We're silently praying for the moment we can plead sunburn and hide all out mottled bits under the outsize bullfight T-shirt.
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Was his superstar status an outsize mask?
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The entrance is marked by the word ‘mediatheque’ printed in playful outsized letters on the sliding doors.
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After all, Lloyd Doggett, a Democratic representative of Texas and senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, recently called outsized severance packages for executives "outrageous.
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But the meritocratic system that produced Laura and me not only produced outsized expectations; it inculcated a belief that we deserved wonderful jobs and a comfortable lifestyle.
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Then the poetry establishment's outsized accolades gave them too big an idea of themselves, and they each turned into an image of what they were supposed to be like: Olds the intrepid forager among women's dirty little secrets, Graham the Old World philosopher-deconstructer of language, Glück the pithy celebrator of the domestic everyday event, Levine the working-class sage with no chips on his shoulders.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship
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You open another and come across a giant animatronic cat, trying to catch an equally outsized mouse.
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As someone with experience training raptors for "outsized" quarry, I agree with Carl that this is not a difficult task, given firm grounding in basic techniques; although I take small exception to Carl's dim view of the motivations for doing this.
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Lu You , anchors on CCTV, also said outsized incomes and high expectations had crippled men's soccer.
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On one, a farmhouse is enclosed by a wildly outsized path.
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Goldman's outsize trading gains in the first quarter, coming alongside weakness in other offer limited comfort.
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Nissan With its wildly outsized fender flares, saucer-eyed round headlamps, squat fuselage, tapering roofline and curiously latent, not-quite-formed rear contours, the Juke looks like a Nissan Murano at the larval stage.
Purposely and Deliberately Imperfect
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Often outsize clothes are made from cheap fabric and look like ugly tents.
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It began to assume outsize dimensions, rising like the pyramid of Giza over the bar.
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Indeed, we suspect gold is likely to grab an outsized share of the immediate future, thanks to the substantial pressures weighing on the US Dollar.
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At the same time, there was an outsize burp as water rushed into the ruptured buoyancy tank.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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As the bulldog descended, his prey — an outsize boar with a wide “three-finger” hoofprint — sensed its imminent demise, and bolted past Clifford and the trailing pack.
The Boar War
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They provide the Army's only amphibious lighterage service primarily for heavy, outsize or bulky equipment.
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A friend who found the former rodeo racer a desk job, owned an outsized pet chimp called Travis.
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Like opera itself, the novel is outsized and outrageous, with evil curses, nervous breakdowns, and overwhelming arias.
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We're silently praying for the moment we can plead sunburn and hide all out mottled bits under the outsize bullfight T-shirt.
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A younger woman with outsize spectacles behind them periodically gave a slight nod of her head.
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He sat there looking down at her busy hands with a look of wonderment on his face; he might actually have been an outsized infant.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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The hype will no doubt be outsized, but I'm not sure how a 45-year-old suburbanite singing about bitches will play with his fans.
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Black-spotted pufferfish this Zanzibar turtle is carrying an outsize passenger - a monster remora sweepers pack into a dense wall on the bow of the Royal Navy lighter
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The sight of the outfield player anxiously pulling on an outsized goalkeeper jersey is too rarely seen in these days of substitute goalkeepers.
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Several of his former outsized foes, including the giant moth-like creature Mothra, make comeback appearances in "Final Wars," which Toho is touting as its last Godzilla tale -- at least for now.
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Many sins are forgivable, but charging handsomely for coffee that comes directly from an outsized tin of own-label instant is not one of them.
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That she now looks like a kindly old grandmother only heightens the jolt and joke of her sauciness, which may be why she's even more crazily adored than when she flaunted a whisk and an outsize libido as Sue Ann Nivens on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" or found fresh poetry in daffiness as Rose Nylund in "The Golden Girls.
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Since so many environmentalists think this way they tend to have an outsized influence on framing how environmental issues get debated.
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For a petite and refined-looking woman -- who is often called a "Latina Audrey Hepburn" -- Mia has an outsized zest for exploring every uncovered wonder in this world.
Christiana Wyly: Twilight, Mia Maestro and the Call of Our Wild Side
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Paint your mobile number on it in outsize toxic yellow figures for good measure.
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Not every troubled-company workout generates for Third Avenue investors the kind of outsized profits that came from Whitman's decision to invest in bonds issued by a then-bankrupt Kmart.
Swimming Happily Against the Tide -- Third Avenue's Marty Whitman Finds Lots to Buy
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The craft could carry 2000 pounds of cargo but it certainly would not be capable of hauling outsized equipment such as spare engines.
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The scarves sag, the whistles wheeze, one last outsize banana droops.
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Everyone is hoping interest rates remain low and that the young hopefuls still come to the city with their outsize hopes.
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The story of the final weeks of the annexation issue, including the Stockton subplot, is best told through the personalities and machinations of the outsized figures involved—Stockton, Wickliffe, Sherman, Texas president Anson Jones, Sam Houston, and U.S. Minister Donelson.
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Mr. SONDHEIM: No, I mean, we knew we were writing for that kind of outsized personality that she's got.
Look, He Made A Hat: Sondheim Talks Sondheim
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What got most of the attention though was his large mouth and exceptionally outsized front teeth.
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In the living room, an outsize picture window offers a panoramic view of hills to the north.
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On the white-painted wall of the lobby were several outsize representations of lighted cigarettes with a diagonal red line drawn through them.
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A friend who found the former rodeo racer a desk job, owned an outsized pet chimp called Travis.
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I'm skeptical that there aren't equally outsized egos in the graphic design community, up and down the ladder of experience.
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After establishing my credentials and getting my outsized but very tastefully colored beige identification card, I begin my search.
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The problem is, Becky has an outsize sense of entitlement, which allows her to feel justified in mowing down people who get in her way.
Carolyn Hax: Unfaithful sister wants her ex excluded from family functions
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These sometimes terrible flubs were due largely, if not entirely, to Wilson's rigid personality and outsized ego.
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The saga of the computing industry is rich with outsize characters and surprising plot turns, but there's one story that has risen over time to mythic proportions.
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Unusually character-driven for a genre that typically deals in braggadocious montages of big barrel riding, this polished Australian production is buoyed along by the outsized personalities of a pair of pushing-50 best mates.
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She is mostly foreshortened, as though to emphasize the disparity between the experience of a child and the outsized world of grown-ups.
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An outsize cotton shoes was mounted on a huge float and paraded through the main street.
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Lastly, Ms. Lien says, it calls for greater use of stop-loss orders, which are designed to automatically buy or sell at a certain price to prevent outsize losses.
Foreign Exchange Gone Wild
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SYDNEY, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A species of giant ancient turtle outlived most of the outsized, extinct animals known as megafauna -- until humans came along, Australian researchers say.
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I shouldn't complain, but I always feel such outsized portions are a bit unnecessary at this stage of the meal, and that starters should leave you wanting more, not unbuttoning your trousers.
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It's a roll call of outsized famousness that includes names of legends like Australia's Don Bradman, England's Jack Hobbs and the West Indian star Viv Richards.
The Greatest Story in Cricket
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The work of Kuroda Seiki, the painter who introduced such western genres as the nude to Japan, and Edo-period "pornotopia", is the inspiration for paintings of outsize genitalia, cut free from context against bright planes of pattern, while his sculptures present life-sized girly Manga figurines with comedically exaggerated attributes.
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I believe that long-term outsized investment returns can be achieved by spotting trends early and continuing to examine the underlying assumptions.
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Her outsize veneers were so unattractive that they apparently drove away her husband.
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With outsized ears, the Black-tailed Jackrabbit is very distinctive.
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The black-turbaned man with outsized feet, hands, girth, and ambition is a Sayyid, a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammed.
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Buoyed by high crude prices, Western oil majors are reporting outsize profits.
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A medical partnership led by your area's premier brain surgeon may enjoy outsized and growing earnings, but that tells little about its future.
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Over time, the imperial tented bed became an outsized symbol of the Empire style's most recognizable design.
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At the same time, there was an outsize burp as water rushed into the ruptured buoyancy tank.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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Maybe he received a garish jumper, a lurid tie or an outsized pair of slippers in his seasonal gifts.
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An outsize cotton shoes was mounted on a huge float and paraded through the main street.
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Her brown boots with their outsized 12 cm heels are just too cool for her to worry about details like being able to walk without teetering.
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Men of large vision often display outsized foibles as well.
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Even in an age of outsize literary biographies, Irvin Ehrenpreis's life of Jonathan Swift counts as a superdreadnought.
Animated Paradox
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Eventually, they came up with three clickable buttons that are centered beneath an outsized, horizontal LCD screen.
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He cut a distinctive figure with his grizzled beard, smart suits and outsized spectacles.
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They want McDonald's to take down the outsize golden arches that obscure some of the city's tourist sights.
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The most powerful secular landlords in England founded new communities for canons and built outsized churches for them.
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My agnolotti - outsized cheese-filled ravioli topped with parmesan shavings - were pleasant enough, but just didn't manage to get my tastebuds racing past first base.
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Following the Guardian story, readers have told us of their alleged sightings of a tawny brown, outsized cat around Leatherhead.
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There are problems with using ‘outsize’ baits and our 2-4 lb asp and zander, meant that we had to adapt our rigs to get a good hook presentation.
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In ye goode olde days the “gaps” greatly outsized the data, thus the primacy of God, tribe, ritual and family.
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The real cipher is to just get into the habit of noticing the small things that might bring about outsized improvements in our lives.
Resolve to Make Modest Changes | Lifehacker Australia
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Photo of the Day: Best of April 2008 A baby alligator snapping turtle in a Florida swamp perches on the outsize skull of a record-breaking ancestor.
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Even so, it would take nothing less than Babe Ruth's outsized personality and equally enormous home runs to let baseball fans believe again.
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Information is collected routinely on purchases of outsized clothing, or of slimming products.
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It is simply their attempt to screw some extra cash out of people by using mawkish good taste music and pictures of babies in outsized hats.
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That is especially true of business journalism, which - at its best - limns both the outsize frailties of men and the hidden drama of numbers.
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(It's hard to visualize an outsize schnoz on Gemma Arterton, the lovely actress who plays her, but flashbacks to Tamara's childhood help.)
A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'
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No, the outsize and eccentric figures of the Empire have passed into history, and now the establishment is filled with dull corporatist metropolitans.
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Outsize bonuses at big banks and securities firms have never been more controversial.
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At the same time, there was an outsize burp as water rushed into the ruptured buoyancy tank.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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To be able to lift their outsized jaws, the assassins evolved elongated necks, giving the spiders a unique ability to strike from a distance.
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Everything about going to the movies today is outsized, except the size of the screening room you end up in.
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Then the poetry establishment's outsized accolades gave them too big an idea of themselves, and they each turned into an image of what they were supposed to be like: Olds the intrepid forager among women's dirty little secrets, Graham the Old World philosopher-deconstructer of language, Glück the pithy celebrator of the domestic everyday event, Levine the working-class sage with no chips on his shoulders.
Anis Shivani: Philip Levine and Other Mediocrities: What it Takes to Ascend to the Poet Laureateship
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Out in the field, a veteran Paris freelancer goes to desperate lengths for his next byline, while the new Cairo stringer is mercilessly manipulated by an outrageous war correspondent with an outsize ego.
Review of The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
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Often outsize clothes are made from cheap fabric and look like ugly tents.
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They specialize in outsize clothes.
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Bibis Italianissimo, a restaurant which he described as bringing "the ersatz glitz of the outsized Las Vegas cocktail lounge to a site abutting a car park".
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He goes swimming with great white sharks and does a bit of landscape gardening with outsize African elephants.
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An outsize cotton shoes was mounted on a huge float and paraded through the main street.
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Just how outsized is digital media’s presence in a child’s life?
Well Adjusted Teens Do Better on Social Media Sites | Impact Lab
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Photo of the Day: Best of April 2008 A baby alligator snapping turtle in a Florida swamp perches on the outsize skull of a record-breaking ancestor.
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Finally, after 45 minutes, the audience now diminished as people drifted away, the machine spews out some outsize balls that bounce away on the wind.
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In the process, he's increasing the already outsized power of his tiny state in high-profile corporate transactions.
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By the time Sam sat down to share a cup of coffee with the famous badman at Rocky Ridge Station, he had comically inflated the real Slade into an outsized bogeyman for the purposes of underlining their argument over a last cup of coffee.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY
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Several of his former outsized foes, including the giant moth-like creature Mothra, make comeback appearances in "Final Wars," which Toho is touting as its last Godzilla tale -- at least for now.
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Retailers are glomming onto a new fashion among teens for outsize clothes.
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An outsized chef dressed in Austrian clothes, speaking Italian and serving classic German food is not as unusual as it sounds in South Tyrol.
Family ski: never say never in South Tyrol
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Retailers are glomming onto a new fashion among teens for outsize clothes.
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The lobby was filled with blocky outsize chairs covered in black and white dogtooth check or lime-green or brown and white pinstripes, arranged around smoked-glass tables.
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This is especially the case with outsize vehicles, like heavy trucks and tank transporters.
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Retailers are glomming onto a new fashion among teens for outsize clothes.
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He holds back huge multi-pointed leaves to reveal plants thick with buds and outsized aubergines, the size of a well-blown up football.
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Choosing what to buy in a climate where diamonds are bedecking everything from ladies’ décolletage to outsized gaudery, while changing colors and cuts at will, can be daunting, though.
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The fashion industry is full of outsize egos and rivalries, yet it doesn't often feature in crime fiction.
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The work of Kuroda Seiki, the painter who introduced such western genres as the nude to Japan, and Edo-period "pornotopia", is the inspiration for paintings of outsize genitalia, cut free from context against bright planes of pattern, while his sculptures present life-sized girly Manga figurines with comedically exaggerated attributes.
This week's new exhibitions