sleeping giant

noun

: one that has great but unrealized or newly emerging power

Examples of sleeping giant in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The framing imagines women as a unified bloc, a sleeping giant that, properly motivated, will deliver a decisive blow to whichever party has most recently offended them. — Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

When Qatar Sports Investment took over the sleeping giant of French football in 2011, PSG had no jersey in the streets of Paris. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 June 2026

Who’s to say international futbol isn’t ready to begrudgingly welcome a new epoch in the sport, and that is might be led by a host nation that proves itself a sleeping giant awakened? — Greg Cote june 22, Miami Herald, 22 June 2026

At about 15 times that previous record-holding distance, this new research is the first time it has been successfully employed to measure the mass of such a distant sleeping giant. — Robert Lea, Space.com, 8 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for sleeping giant

• compliant
• defiant
• reliant
• suppliant
• client
• pliant
• scient
• noncompliant