Terrific in a sentence as an adjective

He is right and it's a terrific salespitch. That's the best kind of right.

First of all, your presentation is terrific. Great art and sound.

Yes, it was a terrific waste of time, but boy did it feel good. I consider it volunteering.

They have bravely taken up the fight against friction, and they made terrific inroads.

Aaron was a terrific young man. He contributed a lot to the world in his short life and I regret the loss of all the things he had yet to accomplish.

It's terrific fun. I'm living proof that you can be writing in C and not be a sour, dried-up dinosaur in the back corner of a lab somewhere.

They're terrific. Their techs actually know what they're talking about and, as I'm sure others on HN can relate to from dealing with other ISPs, they don't treat you like an idiot when you call up.

This is a terrific story. Not terrific for any parties involved, but a well-written and well-told _story_.

I've been lucky with my place in NYC in that I'm in an AirBNB-friendly building and I've had extremely good luck in getting terrific guests. But the regulatory environment is not AirBNB-friendly and it's getting less so.

One of the charms of HN is that it attracts posts from people for whom terrific and mindbending to the point of perversity are not necessarily opposites.

In a room with 12 reasonably bright American students we all were able to point out terrific errors that were causing some big issues. I remember reading that 70-80 percent of the trained Afghani police force was just signed up to get a paycheck.

Conclusion: MongoDB is terrific as a write-only, developer friendly database that you will never have to scale, ever.

The engineers before me did a terrific job on the app but given that TechCrunch has been and is a fairly small setup + revolving around editorial, CrunchBase hasn't always received the love it deserves. As an Engineer at TC now, I would like to chime in.

This is a terrific developer-specific list. The realism about acceptable answers is quite good.

It helps to have a terrific memory, and for that it helps to really care a LOT. It helps to cut out nearly everything except course work and to have the ability to do well with relatively little sleep. Then, with the basic learning done, work with other good students in the class to get a good view of what the teacher likes to see on tests, term papers, etc.

As someone who had tried to implement a modern rich text editor with custom plugins, this seems like a terrific solution to a real problem. I had used a fairly nice wrapper around contenteditable[0], but this seems like a much more featureful, easily extensible option.

This sounds terrific, but it doesn't seem self-consistent between wanting companies with the scale of ambition of SpaceX and Tesla, but insisting on early momentum being critical and avoiding a big and expensive initial project. Tesla took four years to introduce their first product, the Roadster.

In my opinion the reasons you're seeing people shell out money to all kinds of startup-assistance services and sites is NOT because they are receiving some terrific value from them, although I'm sure each has its fans. It's because there are tens or hundreds of thousands of people desperately trying to do exactly what you suggest: get immediately applicable help.

, are both terrific, must-read/see histories of the dawning and maturity of the age of personal computing. The doc is especially fascinating now because it was made in the window of time after Steve Jobs' failure at NeXT, but before his triumphant return to Apple -- so it provides a glimpse of him humbled and circumspect, which is a very different tone than that he took in nearly every other public appearance ever.

Terrific definitions

adjective

very great or intense; "a terrific noise"; "a terrific thunderstorm storm"; "fought a terrific battle"

adjective

extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement"

adjective

causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail"

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