as in giants
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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Noun
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By 1963, several other oil companies had entered the scene, including American giants Mobil Oil, Texaco, American Petroleum, and Chevron, as well as ELF from France, and Italy’s Agip Oil.—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026 -
That head-to-head rivalry between the two giants was the engine of the near-threefold increase.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Sei whales are endangered and are common in the Southeast's waters.—
Alexa Herrera,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
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Humpback whales aren't native to the Baltic.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Mar. 2026
Noun
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There's also aliens or monsters or some other supernatural entity out to get them.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2026
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Sometimes darkly humorous, sometimes strangely heartbreaking, this immersive storytelling experience is Edgar Allan Poe for the modern age; a heart-to-bleeding-heart with madmen, murderers and monsters all dying to tell their story.—
William Earl,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Anne Hathaway versus cosmic dinosaurs?—
William Earl,
Variety,
26 Mar. 2026
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The cardboard castle continued to prompt lessons, as children brought toy dragons to live inside it, then discussed taking pets to a veterinarian and then pivoted to dinosaurs.—
Michael Cuglietta,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 Mar. 2026
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The K-pop titans returned March 20 with a free concert in Seoul, South Korea, after a four-year hiatus so the group members could complete mandatory military service and focus on solo projects.—
Thomas Smith,
Billboard,
27 Mar. 2026
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The film features Roher, who won an Oscar for his 2022 doc about Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, interviewing AI titans like Altman, Anthropic’s Daniela and Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis.—
Rebecca Keegan,
NBC news,
27 Mar. 2026
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Fossils have also been found that indicate the islands were also once home to pygmy mammoths, which only reached 4 to 6 feet tall.—
Kate Bradshaw,
Mercury News,
23 Mar. 2026
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Surviving Earth explores the world 450M years ago featuring giant sea scorpions, mammoths and sabertooths.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
12 Mar. 2026
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