magnitude
the great size, extent, or importance of something
Magnitude in a sentence
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Only later did they grasp the full magnitude of the discovery.
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The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.
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