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
Eight years ago, the Park Avenue colossus abruptly closed for renovations.
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Ben Ryder Howe, airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
Gone is the cosy globalised world of Bill Clinton and even George W Bush, where America was a benevolent colossus, keeping the peace, spurring prosperity, and putting out financial fires.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Bezos founded e-commerce colossus Amazon out of his Seattle garage in 1994.
—Connor Greene, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
The deal would have combined the nation’s largest and second-largest traditional grocery chains into a colossus and extended a lifeline to Albertsons.
—David Staats, Idaho Statesman, 4 Mar. 2025
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Ben Ryder Howe, airmail.news, 15 Mar. 2025
Gone is the cosy globalised world of Bill Clinton and even George W Bush, where America was a benevolent colossus, keeping the peace, spurring prosperity, and putting out financial fires.
—Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 5 Apr. 2025
Bezos founded e-commerce colossus Amazon out of his Seattle garage in 1994.
—Connor Greene, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
The deal would have combined the nation’s largest and second-largest traditional grocery chains into a colossus and extended a lifeline to Albertsons.
—David Staats, Idaho Statesman, 4 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for colossus
Recent Examples of Synonyms for colossus
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While Apple is focusing on the education segment with its new ad, the Cupertino giant is also forming corporate partnerships that have contributed to its Mac growth.—
Prakhar Khanna,
Forbes.com,
5 June 2025
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Built to support much more weight than necessary (a safety precaution in the early days of skyscrapers), these giants’ steel frames are bolstered by thick masonry and interior walls.—
Sarah Durn,
Popular Science,
5 June 2025
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Sightings of dead whales should be reported to the Academy's department of Ornithology and Mammalogy.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 May 2025
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The establishment of the Orcas, whose team colors are distinctly light green but also has black, white and orange to reflect the natural colors of the orca whale, has been a welcome start to igniting cricket in the area.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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The message of Bring Her Back may be that grief is the real monster.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
30 May 2025
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But what’s interesting here is that Armstrong doesn’t write Venis as a one-dimensional monster.—
Andrew Wallenstein,
Variety,
28 May 2025
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The first song teaches little ones to count to 10 with the help of colorful dinosaur friends.—
Elisabeth Sherman,
Parents,
30 May 2025
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While studies have found that bed bugs have been on Earth since the dinosaurs, the estimated 90 species of the arthropods shared a fairly stable symbiotic relationship with their hosts – until human ancestors began forming societies and living in close proximity.—
Bronwyn Thompson,
New Atlas,
28 May 2025
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Another challenge lies in behavioral uncertainty—will a mammoth born to an elephant behave like a mammoth, or will its instincts be lost?—
Scott Travers,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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All of them successfully expressed the gold, woolly hair of the mammoth as well as its accelerated lipid metabolism.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
4 Mar. 2025
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Trump might intimidate tech titans to toe the line and use government power to try to bend institutions like Harvard University and judges, but some world leaders are harder to bully.—
Stephen Collinson,
CNN Money,
31 May 2025
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Trump since coming to office has punished certain firms for their past clients or causes, stripping them of security clearances and government contracts, while trumpeting deals with others, including titans like Kirkland & Ellis and Latham & Watkins.—
Carrie Johnson,
NPR,
31 May 2025
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“Colossus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/colossus. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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