as in giant
something that is unusually large and powerful
Leonardo da Vinci remains a colossus in the history of art
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Recent Examples of colossus
Lacking an Oppenheimer-level colossus, this season has spread the wealth among several unconventional contenders.
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Britina Cheng, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
The Swiss colossus crafted a sophisticated campaign to justify more than double that amount, enlisting a team of respected academics, data-modelers and pricing strategists to help make its case.
—Robin Fields, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
Dunk is not the colossus of old Is age and fitness finally catching up to Lewis Dunk?
—Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
When pro football historians John Turney and Frank Cooney applied a point system based on honors won to rank 60 senior nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2025, former Chiefs left tackle Jim Tyrer towered like a colossus above the rest.
—Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2025
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Britina Cheng, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
The Swiss colossus crafted a sophisticated campaign to justify more than double that amount, enlisting a team of respected academics, data-modelers and pricing strategists to help make its case.
—Robin Fields, CNN, 17 Feb. 2025
Dunk is not the colossus of old Is age and fitness finally catching up to Lewis Dunk?
—Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
When pro football historians John Turney and Frank Cooney applied a point system based on honors won to rank 60 senior nominees for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2025, former Chiefs left tackle Jim Tyrer towered like a colossus above the rest.
—Vahe Gregorian, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for colossus
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The reality series debuted its first season on the streaming giant (and ninth season overall) on March 12.—
Joe Otterson,
Variety,
17 Apr. 2025
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As a result, system integration is where a lot of innovation is happening with startups and other companies besides tech giants.—
Gary Drenik,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Two years ago after a request from Congressional opponents of wind energy, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) began investigating whether the offshore wind industry kills whales.—
Jeongyoon Han,
NPR,
17 Apr. 2025
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Five whales were spotted traveling with Check, making the rescue mission unsafe, officials said.—
Paloma Chavez,
Sacbee.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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The Switch was a monster, so the assumption is that sure, players will pay a full 50% more for a new one, if not more.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Oviedo and Sepúlveda shared with las Casas the view that Indians were not monsters and did, in fact, have souls that could be saved (a matter of debate for much of the sixteenth century).—
The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
23 Apr. 2025
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Subjects range from a dinosaur fossil dig in Central China, the opening of Cuba to American tourists, the new energy in Vienna and the best seafood spots on Canada’s Prince Edward Island to a luxury camp in Antarctica and the best new restaurant in New York.—
Laurie Werner,
Forbes.com,
25 Apr. 2025
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The landscapes, bracketed by Russia and China borderlines, have stories to tell, from the Steppe grasslands, where Chinggis Khaan (aka Genghis Khan) once rode, to the Gobi Desert, where arid landscapes belie subterranean layers rich in coal, gold, and dinosaur bones.—
AFAR Media,
AFAR Media,
25 Apr. 2025
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Colossal plans to use similar techniques to bring back the Ice Age woolly mammoth in 2028, editing living cell nuclei from Asian elephants—the mammoth’s closest living kin—to express mammoth traits preserved in nearly 60 sets of Ice Age remains.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
7 Apr. 2025
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The company intends to bring back its version of a mammoth in 2028.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
4 Mar. 2025
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Here’s hoping these two titans of the game meet one more time in the postseason before they’re done.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
18 Apr. 2025
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With President Donald Trump having installed a market trader as commerce secretary, a hedge fund manager as Treasury head, a private equity titan in the defense department, and so on, capitalists might well have thought that the White House was on their side.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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“Colossus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colossus. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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