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• a  relating or belonging to or serving as a monument
  the use of the arch in monumental architecture
  monumental sculptures
• s  of outstanding significance
  Einstein's monumental contributions to physics
• s  imposing in size or bulk or solidity
  a monumental scale

• Joe was a newsboy, candy butcher, bus operator, Harvard graduate ('12), bank president, shipbuilder, film magnate and a Wall Street operator who left behind a monumental .
• At the time Oldenburg was just beginning his transition from his oversize soft sculptures of the 60s to monumental fabricated steel pieces that could survive outside.
• When Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, 50, and his wife Melinda, 41, were looking for ways to give away their prodigious wealth, they assumed that such monumental problems were .

• massive
• monolithic

News & Articles

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• Monumental phone-records monitoring is laid bare
  Monumental phone-records monitoring is laid bare Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 8:35 pm, Thursday, June 6, 2013 WASHINGTON (AP) — A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans' phone records — hundreds of millions of ...
  June 8, 2013 - seattlepi.com
• Monumental NSA surveillance is laid bare
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government’s surveillance of Americans’ phone records — hundreds of millions of calls — in the first... Read more »
  June 7, 2013 - Albuquerque Journal
• Monumental phone-records monitoring laid bare
  WASHINGTON -- A leaked document has laid bare the monumental scope of the government's surveillance of Americans' phone records -- hundreds of millions of calls -- in the first hard evidence of a massive data collection program aimed at combating
  June 7, 2013 - The Vacaville Reporter

Quotes

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• Condoleezza Rice in International Herald Tribune
  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, travelling to Brussels for a NATO meeting, said: "It's going to take a monumental effort to get all of this done by the end of the year and I am not too concerned about whether it is December 31 or not."
• Steve Yzerman in msnbc.com
  He's got a little destiny to him - his entire career, throughout minor hockey, junior hockey, NHL,Canada executive director Steve Yzerman said about Crosby. "So it's just another monumental moment in his career. And he's what, 22 still?...
• Charlie Crist in USA Today
  Gov. Charlie Crist calls the deal "as monumental as the creation of our nation's first national park, Yellowstone."