as in whale
something or someone that is unusually large and powerful
by any standard, the new shopping mall will be an elephant and one that is certain to alter the retail landscape
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Recent Examples of elephant
Other animals on the list include elephants, apes and lions, according to the IFAW list published on Sunday.
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Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
And on a barge with 30 elephants on the bank and the sun setting and birds flying over and hippos in the water.
—Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Other live cameras monitoring elephants, lions and naked mole-rats also remain active during the shutdown.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Analysis of loop-like bag openings found in female graves from the fifth to seventh century revealed that these were made from African elephant ivory.
—Duncan Sayer, JSTOR Daily, 2 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for elephant
Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
And on a barge with 30 elephants on the bank and the sun setting and birds flying over and hippos in the water.
—Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Other live cameras monitoring elephants, lions and naked mole-rats also remain active during the shutdown.
—Sudiksha Kochi, USA Today, 2 Oct. 2025
Analysis of loop-like bag openings found in female graves from the fifth to seventh century revealed that these were made from African elephant ivory.
—Duncan Sayer, JSTOR Daily, 2 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for elephant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for elephant
Noun
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His landscapes are muddy and void, prone to sudden invasion by disturbing strangers, including the giant whale carcass that arrives on a train at the beginning of his 1989 novel, The Melancholy of Resistance.—
Walt Hunter,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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Humpback whales were once hunted nearly to extinction, but a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1985 allowed the species to make a comeback, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
9 Oct. 2025
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Consider the two-year cycle of Moore’s Law, which changed the world and inspired new corporate giants while dooming others.—
Geoff Colvin,
Fortune,
10 Oct. 2025
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Prizegivers have also in the past been accused of being snobbish, of having an anti-American bias and of ignoring some of the giants of literature, including Russia's Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, France's Emile Zola and Ireland's James Joyce.—
Simon Johnson,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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But this may be the first tech revolution that doesn’t vaporize the dinosaurs, the way mobile killed Nokia and threatened Microsoft, but grafts their DNA onto something new.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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Same for the life-size dinosaur that took over Manhattan ahead of the release of Jurassic World Rebirth.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
13 Oct. 2025
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Frankenstein's monster is a tortured fellow who's not a big fan of flames.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
14 Oct. 2025
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The same trigger the player would use to shoot a gun is used to throw Poké Balls at unsuspecting monsters, and there’s never been a mechanic in a Pokémon game that feels as immersive.—
Ryan Gaur,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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With these tools, scientists may one day trace how microbes and mammoths co-evolved.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
30 Sep. 2025
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One likes to imagine Paleo Dad loping across the savannah in hot pursuit of a wooly mammoth.—
Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Elephant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elephant. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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