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Gargantua is the name of a giant king in François Rabelais's 16th-century satiric novel Gargantua, the second part of a five-volume series about the giant and his son Pantagruel. All of the details of Gargantua's life befit a giant. He rides a colossal mare whose tail switches so violently that it fells the entire forest of Orleans. He has an enormous appetite, such that in one incident he inadvertently swallows five pilgrims while eating a salad. The scale of everything connected with Gargantua led to the adjective gargantuan, which since William Shakespeare's time has been used for anything of tremendous size or volume.
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Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2025
The commercial spaceflight company, founded in 2002 by billionaire Elon Musk, launched the gargantuan rocket on a second successful uncrewed test flight in a row from its Starbase facilities in Texas.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
OpenAI’s latest gargantuan commitment for computing capacity via AMD chips – one that will be largely financed through a 10% equity position in AMD that was granted to Open AI — again punished anyone who bet that the AI hype was fully priced in.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
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—George Yang, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
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“Gargantuan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gargantuan. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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gargantuan
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from Gargantua, a giant with an enormous appetite in books by the French author François Rabelais
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