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• v  appear very large or occupy a commanding position
• s  of imposing height; especially standing out above others
  towering icebergs

• Expert Red wreckers had placed dozens of small liquid air cartridges in the towering granite walls of Moscow's largest church, the Cathedral of the Christ Redeemer (capacity, 10 .
• Nine sex offenders live in tents surrounding a makeshift fire pit in the trees behind a towering "no trespassing" sign, waiting out their probation sentences as they face numerous .
• From the towering, pineapple-shaped Grand Lisboa to the vast campus of the Venetian, there's no shortage of casinos to choose from in Macau.

• loom
• tower
• predominate
• hulk
• eminent
• lofty
• soaring

News & Articles

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• Dodgers brawl with Diamondbacks: We cast the pro wrestling version
  Tuesday's bench-clearing battle between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks was like a big pro wrestling battle royal. It had foes getting tossed into rails, towering behemoths ready to snap and people on each side getting thrown to … Continue reading ?
  June 12, 2013 - Big League Stew via Yahoo! Sports
• Explosion rocks Santa Rosa neighborhood
  An explosion Wednesday morning sent heavy smoke and flames towering over a northwest Santa Rosa neighborhood. No one was injured.
  June 12, 2013 - The Santa Rosa Press Democrat
• Giants top Dodgers, Rockies in Major Division
  The Dodgers thought it was going to be their day when Luke Gramlick hit a towering two-run homer to right field, into the wind, against the Giants on June 6.
  June 12, 2013 - The American Canyon Eagle

Quotes

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• Gordon Brown in Guardian Unlimited
  British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, whose nation sponsored the expedition that led to Hillary's triumph, said he "was a truly great hero who captured the imagination of the world, a towering figure who will always be remembered as a pioneer...
• Mark Thompson in Bloomberg
  Lyttelton will leave an enormous gap not just in British cultural life as a whole but in the lives of many millions of listeners,BBC Director-General Mark Thompson said in a statement today. "One of the towering figures of British jazz, he...
• Pope Benedict XVI in TIME
  Towering over us ...... is a stark reminder of the stalemate that relations between Israelis and Palestinians seem to have reached - the wall,Pope Benedict XVI told an audience of mainly Muslim Palestinians at a refugee camp in Bethlehem on...