as in whale
something or someone that is unusually large and powerful
the family-owned company lost the contract to a multibillion-dollar Goliath
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Recent Examples of Goliath
With time, cunning, and no irony, the Shuberts slew the Syndicate Goliath and built a monopolistic empire of their own that Justice Department lawyers would decades later force into an antitrust settlement.
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Frank Rich, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
Brendan Marks: Houston 69, Florida 66 One Goliath slayed, one more to go.
—The Athletic College Basketball Staff, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
The War Raiders By DQ Tony Hinchcliffe appeared on commentary and made a rehashed joke about the first match Michael Cole called being David vs. Goliath.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Just remember, the first athlete to enter the Portal was Goliath.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
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Frank Rich, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025
Brendan Marks: Houston 69, Florida 66 One Goliath slayed, one more to go.
—The Athletic College Basketball Staff, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2025
The War Raiders By DQ Tony Hinchcliffe appeared on commentary and made a rehashed joke about the first match Michael Cole called being David vs. Goliath.
—Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Just remember, the first athlete to enter the Portal was Goliath.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for Goliath
Noun
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Researchers hoped the whales were heading southward to round Florida back into the Atlantic.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
26 Apr. 2025
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This enchanting performance, captured by divers, is believed to be part of the whale’s mating behavior.—
Stories by Real-Time news team, with AI summarization,
Miami Herald,
25 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The result was free publicity for Novo Nordisk, the Danish pharmaceutical giant behind Ozempic and Wegovy.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Apr. 2025
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With each match, including a 1-0 victory over the Brazilian giant, residents still reeling from a financial crisis were lifted out of their funk, carried along on a country-consuming wave of hope as the men’s national team sought to qualify for the World Cup for the first time.—
Lewis Gordon,
New York Times,
30 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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“Goliath.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Goliath. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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