Definition of juggernaut
1 : a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path an advertising juggernaut a political juggernaut
2 chiefly British : a large heavy truck
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Examples of juggernaut in a Sentence
there was no escaping the juggernaut of hype for the studio's biggest summer blockbuster
Recent Examples of juggernaut from the Web
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Entering Sunday’s Game 2 of the championship series, Golden State is a postseason juggernaut – undefeated (13-0) and seldom tested.
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The world’s largest retailer is betting on essentials like fresh produce and groceries, and has adjusted its shipping strategy to better compete with Amazon’s juggernaut Prime program.
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Levandowski’s tenure at the private ride-hailing juggernaut, valued at almost $70 billion, was brief and dramatic.
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In the world of competitive spellers, Sylvie Lamontagne is known as a juggernaut.
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A champion became a historic juggernaut and added the second-best player in the league.
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Miller transformed what until then had been a weak and ineffective union into a sports juggernaut.
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The fast food juggernaut has been lauded in the press for learning from those painful experiences and for drafting a blueprint to quickly replace an ailing CEO.
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Verizon and Yahoo, whose internet advertising businesses are tiny compared with juggernauts like Google and Facebook, are eager to move forward on integrating their internet operations.
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Did You Know?
In the early 14th century, Franciscan missionary Friar Odoric brought to Europe the story of an enormous carriage that carried an image of the Hindu god Vishnu (whose title was Jagannath, literally, "lord of the world") through the streets of India in religious processions. Odoric reported that some worshippers deliberately allowed themselves to be crushed beneath the vehicle's wheels as a sacrifice to Vishnu. That story was probably an exaggeration or misinterpretation of actual events, but it spread throughout Europe anyway. The tale caught the imagination of English listeners, and by the 19th century, they were using juggernaut to refer to any massive vehicle (such as a steam locomotive) or to any other enormous entity with powerful crushing capabilities.
Origin and Etymology of juggernaut
Hindi Jagannāth, literally, lord of the world, title of Vishnu
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JUGGERNAUT Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of juggernaut for English Language Learners
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: something (such as a force, campaign, or movement) that is extremely large and powerful and cannot be stopped
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: a very large, heavy truck
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