As examples, we know hundreds of leaders, often serving on multiple corporate executive committees and boards of directors in interlocking organizations who exert extraordinary influence upon politicians and minions in the mass media through the deployment of stupendous amounts of wealth. (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
It's a different story across more open countryside, where it can gently ease over onto its outside tyres and stay that way, refusing to be shoved off line by anything and carrying stupendous amounts of speed through corners. (motoring.com.au)
That's because the Southern Ocean is the door to the deep, the place where stupendous amounts of heat and carbon dioxide can enter the oceans — or escape from them. (newscientist.com)