as in whale
something that is unusually large and powerful
the Great Pyramids of Egypt are giants among the world's architectural wonders
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as in gigantic
unusually large
the giant sycamore tree that dwarfs our house is almost 250 years old
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Recent Examples of giant
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Accenture — Shares rose nearly 2%, bucking the broader market downturn, after the consulting giant increased its share repurchase program by $2 billion to more than $7 billion.
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Sarah Min,fred Imbert,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
24 June 2026
That could look like Sunday football on a giant projector, paid open mic nights, comedy or live music.
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Katelyn Umholtz,
Kansas City Star,
24 June 2026
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Winner of the Week Consulting giant Accenture has acquired a majority stake in Dragos, a cybersecurity company focused on protecting critical infrastructure like the electrical grid.
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Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026
Accenture — Shares rose nearly 2%, bucking the broader market downturn, after the consulting giant increased its share repurchase program by $2 billion to more than $7 billion.
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Sarah Min,fred Imbert,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
Adjective
According to Blair, originality, practical filmmaking and emerging voices matter more than franchises and giant visual effects spectacles.
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Lexi Carson,
HollywoodReporter,
24 June 2026
That could look like Sunday football on a giant projector, paid open mic nights, comedy or live music.
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Katelyn Umholtz,
Kansas City Star,
24 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for giant
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After taking a lot of heat (lower case) over the years for failed attempts on big signings, Pat Riley finally landed another whale in Giannis.
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Options for activities include paddleboarding and chasing Arctic swells in the fjords, sailing through sea cliffs and the uninhabited Hornstrandir Nature Reserve, and spotting whales, seals, Arctic foxes, and more wildlife.
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While running your air conditioner is likely a must, there are actually other ways to keep your home cooler that don't involve blasting your AC or a gigantic electric bill.
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Those include partnering to develop digital workflows and their joint-ownership in the Terafab facility that plans to produce a gigantic one terawatt a year in compute hardware.
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The sculptor has designed giant dinosaurs and monuments to his country’s independence heroes in Cutral Co, an oil-producing town that has never attracted nearly as much attention as other Patagonian communities surrounded by picturesque lakes and mountains.
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As anyone knows on the digital side of things, waiting half a year to make orders that respond to live customer action data makes for lags as long as dinosaur legs.
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Authors think humans might just be able to leverage a few tools at our disposal to change the course of huge weather events.
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Technology companies are spending big to incorporate artificial intelligence into their businesses and to build huge data centers.
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Or will the monsters get in their way?
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Making matters worse, Christophe has a spinal condition that requires him to wear a massive metal back brace 24/7, turning him into a pre-teen metal monster.
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But for prices, the distinction makes an enormous difference, Kaneva noted.
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The wave that hit downtown Kansas City on Thursday wasn’t like what the city has seen before, even in enormous parades for Chiefs’ Super Bowl or Royals’ World Series victories.
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According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.
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When Colossal Biosciences raises capital at a $10 billion valuation, investors are not betting on the mammoth.
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The vast majority of those flights — 80% of them — have been dedicated to building out the company's Starlink broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit.
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In the final days of the war, the Nazis sought to destroy the party’s vast collection of membership cards and took them to a pulp mill near Munich for that reason.
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“Giant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/giant. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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