Veritable
adjective
Used to emphasize how great, large, or remarkable something is.
John’s backyard was a veritable jungle.
Often appears as...
- veritable feast
- veritable treasure
adjective
Used to emphasize how great, large, or remarkable something is.
John’s backyard was a veritable jungle.
Often appears as...
- veritable feast
- veritable treasure
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Intensifying Effect
Use 'veritable' to intensify adjectives and make your expression stronger.
The new mall is a veritable labyrinth!
Pro Tip 2/3Impression of Size
'Veritable' often implies something is large or abundant more than expected.
She had a veritable mountain of paperwork on her desk.
Pro Tip 3/3Suggest Remarkability
It suggests that something is noteworthy or extraordinary in some way.
His knowledge of history is a veritable encyclopedia.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensifying Effect
Use 'veritable' to intensify adjectives and make your expression stronger.
The new mall is a veritable labyrinth!
Pro Tip 2/3Impression of Size
'Veritable' often implies something is large or abundant more than expected.
She had a veritable mountain of paperwork on her desk.
Pro Tip 3/3Suggest Remarkability
It suggests that something is noteworthy or extraordinary in some way.
His knowledge of history is a veritable encyclopedia.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensifying Effect
Use 'veritable' to intensify adjectives and make your expression stronger.
The new mall is a veritable labyrinth!
Pro Tip 2/3Impression of Size
'Veritable' often implies something is large or abundant more than expected.
She had a veritable mountain of paperwork on her desk.
Pro Tip 3/3Suggest Remarkability
It suggests that something is noteworthy or extraordinary in some way.
His knowledge of history is a veritable encyclopedia.
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A brain in a supercompute...
within the neocortical column. And it's these electrical objects that are holding all the information about whatever stimulated it. And then when we zoomed into this, it's like a veritable universe.
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characters a thousand times longer than the human genome a text which when written out would stretch from here to the moon and back ten times over a veritable shard of our cultural genome
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Licking bees and pulping...
In just one summer, the nest reaches the size of a basketball, supporting thousands of workers. Such a large population needs to eat, and the nearby garden provides a veritable buffet.
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Herring Hazards PIPE...
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Mouldy Sloth PIPE Amazon...
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A funny look at the...
So are we more connected, or are we just more connected to our devices? Social media was supposed to place us in a veritable town square, where we could engage one another with challenging ideas and debates. And instead what we got were trolls. This is an actual tweet that I received.
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A funny look at the...
clearly three of these guys are reading and one guy on the N is listening to music and playing candy crush so are we more connected or are we just more connected to our devices social media was supposed to place us in a veritable town square where we could engage one
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Brain Bank PIPE National...
brains it's by far the largest brain repository in the world a veritable stockroom of intelligence packing freezers and lining shelves for more than 25 years the brain Bank has been collecting and doling brains out to neuro scientists looking to unlock their secrets
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Welcome to the Brain...
brains it's by far the largest brain repository in the world a veritable stockroom of intelligence packing freezers and lining shelves for more than 25 years the brain Bank has been collecting and doling brains out to neuroscientists looking to unlock their secrets
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A brain in a supercompute...
within the neocortical column. And it's these electrical objects that are holding all the information about whatever stimulated it. And then when we zoomed into this, it's like a veritable universe.
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What we learned from 5...
characters a thousand times longer than the human genome a text which when written out would stretch from here to the moon and back ten times over a veritable shard of our cultural genome
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Licking bees and pulping...
In just one summer, the nest reaches the size of a basketball, supporting thousands of workers. Such a large population needs to eat, and the nearby garden provides a veritable buffet.
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What we learned from 5...
10 times over -- a veritable shard of our cultural genome. Of course what we did when faced with such outrageous hyperbole was what any self-respecting researchers
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Herring Hazards PIPE...
waters to retrieve a treasure that flows like liquid soil these fish may look nondescript but they are a veritable linchpin of the world's oceans they are Eric
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Mouldy Sloth PIPE Amazon...
dry season they turn brown the sloths fur is home to numerous insects including mites ticks beetles and moths it's a veritable ecosystem as many as
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American Novelist
Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth.
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The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.
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Danish Philosopher
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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Marianne Wiggins
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I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
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Tom Shales
American Writer
Dragnet' (the 1951 original, transferred nearly intact from radio) served as a veritable template for all cop shows to come.
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Maurice Allais
French Economist
Wall Street has become a veritable casino.
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Hanya Yanagihara
American Novelist
Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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Anthony Carmona
Trinidadian Statesman
Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth.
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George Vecsey
American Author
Hockey suffers from being compared to itself in ways that other sports are not. Every four years, some of us fawn over Olympic hockey, a great event with bigger rinks, minimal goonishness and national pride in addition to the heightened skills of veritable all-star squads.
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Robert Robinson
British Scientist
The winners of Nobel Prizes must be assumed to possess at least a modicum of imagination and sensibility, and it is therefore incredible that any of us should not experience at this time a veritable surge of emotion.
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Soren Kierkegaard
Danish Philosopher
Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
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Elaine Chao
American Politician
Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Certain of Poe's tales possess an almost absolute perfection of artistic form which makes them veritable beacon-lights in the province of the short story.
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Marianne Wiggins
American Author
I'm fascinated by the narrative of geology, and I'm a veritable pack rat of a collector on the road. I keep a rock hammer in my car.
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Tom Shales
American Writer
Dragnet' (the 1951 original, transferred nearly intact from radio) served as a veritable template for all cop shows to come.
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Maurice Allais
French Economist
Wall Street has become a veritable casino.
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