How to Use magnitude in a Sentence
magnitude
noun
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But its magnitude was felt all across the sports world.
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Dallas News,
15 Oct. 2020
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And, of course, the chance to work on a telescope of that magnitude was unique.
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Daniel Alarcón,
The New Yorker,
29 Mar. 2021
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Something of this magnitude must be tackled by the feds and the states.
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cleveland,
1 June 2021
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Since these two fields have the same magnitude, the net field would be zero.
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Wired,
31 July 2022
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The public deserves to know the magnitude of this guy’s bad faith.
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Grayson Quay,
The Week,
18 Apr. 2022
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But hosting an event of this magnitude comes at a cost.
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Steve Gardner,
USA TODAY,
16 June 2023
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What was the preparation like for a project of this magnitude?
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Mark Elibert,
Billboard,
14 Feb. 2022
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This would be the third bump of that magnitude in a row, and a fourth may well come before the year is out.
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Alan Murray,
Fortune,
21 Sep. 2022
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This is still year, but home field for the playoffs is at stake in a game of this magnitude.
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Richard Obert,
The Arizona Republic,
25 June 2021
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The challenges to come would dwarf that episode by orders of magnitude.
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Alexander Burns,
New York Times,
24 Oct. 2020
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The success of a summit of this magnitude isn't measured in a day.
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Eric Talmadge,
Fox News,
10 June 2018
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There are simply no words to convey the magnitude of this tragedy.
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Jill Smolowe,
PEOPLE.com,
5 Feb. 2018
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Those shifts have been dramatic: rarely are changes of this magnitude seen in the course of a few weeks.
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Michael Robbins,
Foreign Affairs,
14 Dec. 2023
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When a star of this magnitude explodes, its brightness shoots through the roof.
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Jackie Appel,
Popular Mechanics,
18 May 2023
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Jurado didn’t have much time to soak in the magnitude of being called up to the big leagues.
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Drew Davison,
star-telegram,
19 May 2018
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The magnitude of the task ahead would make an average man fold in despair.
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Dominique Soguel,
The Christian Science Monitor,
5 Oct. 2017
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It’s hard to convey the sheer magnitude of what happened.
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Andrew Sullivan,
Daily Intelligencer,
20 Feb. 2018
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The island has not had a hurricane of this magnitude in years.
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Linda Girardi,
Aurora Beacon-News,
6 Sep. 2017
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Trying to do it as part of a swarm is orders of magnitude harder.
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Edd Gent,
Science | AAAS,
16 Dec. 2020
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The magnitude of the loss of a 30-plus year friendship.
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Jennifer Yuma,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2021
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Given the magnitude of its spread, no amount of caution can be enough.
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Ananya Bhattacharya,
Quartz India,
12 Mar. 2020
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The changes required to deal with shortfalls of that magnitude will be enormous.
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Michael Tanner,
National Review,
5 July 2017
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The next time an asteroid of this magnitude will come that close to Earth is a decade from now.
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Fox News,
24 Sep. 2019
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His major miss, however, is in the magnitude of the change.
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WSJ,
15 June 2023
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This record-breaking seizure is the second drug bust of this magnitude within the last three months.
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Salma Reyes,
The Arizona Republic,
5 Oct. 2020
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Any time there is change of this magnitude, there are going to be concerns.
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Beth Mlady,
cleveland.com,
27 Apr. 2018
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Generally a study of that magnitude would take three or so years to run and get the data from it.
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Bradley J. Fikes,
sandiegouniontribune.com,
11 Dec. 2017
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Passing any spending bill of this magnitude is a heavy lift.
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BostonGlobe.com,
20 Nov. 2019
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Most of the earthquakes have been smaller with a magnitude less than 4.
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Sarah Rumpf,
Fox News,
3 Aug. 2022
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There are no words to properly express the magnitude of this tragedy.
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Linda Zavoral,
The Mercury News,
29 July 2019
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