0 used to describe something as another, more exciting, interesting, or unusual thing, as a way of emphasizing its character:
1 (used to emphasize how great or unusual something is by comparing it to something else):
If current projections hold, Montgomery County will experience a veritable explosion in its school-age population (= it will have many more students).
Imitations and cover versions led to a veritable despoliation of black talent which has only belatedly received legal compensation and public recognition.
These sections prove elliptical, a veritable seafarer's tale with constant halts and false starts.
At neighbourhood level, the gang had similarly instituted a veritable regime of terror.
This corporatist structure amounted to a veritable shadow state.
This veritable ' skeleton in the closet' continues to trouble both ars nova aesthetics and the musicologists who concern themselves with this repertory.
In the aftermath of the war, then, social reform took on the nature of a veritable crusade.
The establishment of a veritable archaeology of technologies and of works that employ those technologies is slow.
The solution came from a veritable dialogue conducted between 'present-state beings', namely between the children and myself.
