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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Minus a merger here and an acquisition there, Europe’s business giants remain largely unchanged from two—or even 20—years ago.—
Adam Gale,
Fortune,
29 Oct. 2025 -
By cutting the cost and complexity of closings, the company hopes to expand access to homeownership, reduce fraud, and help smaller regional title firms compete with national giants.—
Nia Bowers,
USA Today,
29 Oct. 2025
Noun
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As biologists began to accept that the smallest of the whales had perished, the rescue work dragged past its second week.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently reported a spike in entangled whales off California in 2024, leading scientists and marine mammal biologists to worry about how this year will go as winter fishing seasons get underway.—
Erika I. Ritchie,
Oc Register,
29 Oct. 2025
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These monsters are just fuzzy-creepy-cute.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
29 Oct. 2025
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For those of us who encountered our scariest monsters in the darkness of a movie theatre, that’s something of an injustice in itself, but an injustice that the industry has long normalized.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
28 Oct. 2025
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The dyrosaurid lineage spread across the globe, and the group as a whole even survived the extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
31 Oct. 2025
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Cue that John Williams theme because dinosaurs are moseying across your screens again.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The Parisian saloon – which is known for hosting variety shows featuring mostly nude female dancers – opened in the '50s and has since welcomed a number of entertainment industry titans, including Kim Kardashian and Pamela Anderson.—
Tracy Wright,
FOXNews.com,
28 Oct. 2025
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Finance titans Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase; Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel; and Eric Schmidt, former chairman and CEO of Google, also are on the speaker list.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Humans have had an impact on biodiversity as far back as 130,000 years ago, with the disappearance of mammoths and giant sloths—and extinction has continued in our wake as the human race spread across the globe.—
Rachael O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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In a study published in Cell, researchers set out to trace the microbial companions of mammoths across a staggering timeline, from over a million years ago to their final days on Wrangel Island just 4,000 years ago.—
Pranjal Malewar,
New Atlas,
30 Sep. 2025
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