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
The National Zoo announced Friday that its 5-week-old Asian elephant calf, Linh Mai, will make her debut before the general public — and on the elephant cam — on April 22, an introduction to human society that follows a brief health scare.
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Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2026
For example, if people judge a cat as more similar to a dog than to an elephant, the goal is to build AI models that arrive at those same judgments.
—Arryn Robbins, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
The elephant is that the real AI TAM [total addressable market] is labor, all $60 trillion of it globally.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
The habitat, the largest project in the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s 109-year history, is home to the park’s herd of eight African savanna elephants.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2026
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Michael E. Ruane, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2026
For example, if people judge a cat as more similar to a dog than to an elephant, the goal is to build AI models that arrive at those same judgments.
—Arryn Robbins, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2026
The elephant is that the real AI TAM [total addressable market] is labor, all $60 trillion of it globally.
—Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
The habitat, the largest project in the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s 109-year history, is home to the park’s herd of eight African savanna elephants.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for elephant
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The pair spent their childhood summers camping here, collecting whale bones and learning from their father about regional folklore, including tales from the nearby whaling station at Bahía del Águila, which processed 4,000 cetaceans between 1906 and 1920.—
Mark Johanson,
Outside,
14 Mar. 2026
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Around the world whale and dolphin captivity is being phased out and animals are stuck to suffer in limbo.—
Valerie Greene,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Mar. 2026
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Social media giants urged to tighten child safety after UK rejects blanket ban for teens.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
18 Mar. 2026
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For example, most of Netflix’s revenue still comes from subscribers that Hollywood giants typically record outside their studio units, along with a growing contribution from advertising revenue, which is most pronounced in the TV networks divisions of Hollywood powerhouses.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Mar. 2026
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Now there's a pit to dig for fossils; a paleontological tent complete with a projector; dinosaur video games; sensory craft tables; dinosaur movies; fossils, and all sorts of memorabilia.—
Megan Shinn,
CBS News,
15 Mar. 2026
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In 2016, the Hilton took over and revamped it with colonial Art Deco stylings and a random faux dinosaur skeleton that divided opinions.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
14 Mar. 2026
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Rather than lean on typical monster movies and slasher horror that can always make bank in the movie theater, the biggest horror properties on TV are all across the map.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
13 Mar. 2026
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The Knicks, shorthanded without Karl-Anthony Towns and Josh Hart, didn’t let them — and a monster performance from Mitchell Robinson helped punch a 101-92 victory over the worst team in basketball on Friday night.—
Kristian Winfield,
New York Daily News,
13 Mar. 2026
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Surviving Earth explores the world 450M years ago featuring giant sea scorpions, mammoths and sabertooths.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
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Unlike typical mice with short gray-brown coats, these woolly mice have long dirty-blond hair that mimics the shaggy fur that helped protect mammoths from the Arctic cold.—
Rob Stein,
NPR,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Elephant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/elephant. Accessed 21 Mar. 2026.
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