as in giant
something that is unusually large and powerful
this newest ocean liner is a true titan of the sea
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Recent Examples of titan
Today, with just 16 investors spread across Silicon Valley, New York, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Purushotham’s team has more resemblance to Menlo Ventures than a Wall Street titan.
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Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
Even newspaper titan William Randolph Hearst rests in an unmarked mausoleum at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
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, 24 Oct. 2025
Media titans like Disney and Comcast have already provided the blueprint on how to leverage amusement parks to promote intellectual property.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
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Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2025
Even newspaper titan William Randolph Hearst rests in an unmarked mausoleum at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park.
—Ryan MacAsero, Mercury News, 26 Oct. 2025
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, 24 Oct. 2025
Media titans like Disney and Comcast have already provided the blueprint on how to leverage amusement parks to promote intellectual property.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for titan
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Disney’s channels have been removed from YouTube’s pay-TV platform after the two media giants failed to reach a new carriage agreement before Thursday’s midnight deadline passed.—
Liam Reilly,
CNN Money,
31 Oct. 2025
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The price of a share of Netflix is about to get less expensive, with the streaming giant’s board of directors signing off on a 10-for-one stock split, the company said Thursday.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Oct. 2025
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Next, a 10,000-pound concrete-and-steel battering ram was used to punch 24-foot holes through the ice, beginning at the far end of the whales' four-mile path to freedom, so as not to alarm them.—
Virginia Chamlee,
PEOPLE,
30 Oct. 2025
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The species feeds by relying on symbiotic bacteria to break down fats inside the bones of large vertebrates, like whales.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
30 Oct. 2025
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Geryon who is metaphorically and perhaps in reality a monster is infatuated with Herakles, but the internal world of Geryon is so thoroughly inspected.—
Amber McBride,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Mundane loot like monster teeth and eyeballs all have different effects when paired with a basic attack, making for a mind-boggling number of combinations for how to dole out punishment.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
4 Nov. 2025
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If the same pattern occurred in dinosaurs, any containing this evidence would have died within a time range of about five weeks during the reproduction period, the authors wrote.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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Lichens could serve as indicators for finding dinosaur fossils at Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
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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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After a mammoth run through North America as part of the After Hours Til Dawn Tour, Abel’s heading overseas in 2026.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
10 Oct. 2025
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When the frame shifts up and over the reservoir’s edge, Copco 1 appears as a concrete colossus, standing sentry over the river naively burbling below.—
Anne Reeve,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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For too long, histories of the war have emphasized its leaders, men like Thomas Müntzer in Thuringia, adopted by Friedrich Engels and then by the East German regime as a revolutionary hero to rival the reactionary colossus Luther.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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