AMAZON Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

amazon

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Definition of amazon

as in giant

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Noun

But of the two Premier League giants who have thrown their financial heft at these signings, whose is the better deal?

— Cerys Jones, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Two of the biggest tech giants are locked in a head-to-head legal battle, with Apple claiming OpenAI stole trade secrets as the AI start-up plans its first hardware devices.

— Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 23 July 2026

Definition of giant

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Watching elephants emerge from the morning mist, seeing a rhino with a calf by its side, or hearing a lion’s roar reverberate at sunset, remain some of Africa's greatest travel experiences.

— Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Your kids may get a kick out of seeing a bunch of animals, including an elephant, mouse, pig, and monkey, greeting JJ, too.

— Anna Halkidis, Parents, 17 July 2026

Definition of elephant

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The new colossus would significantly dampen competition, Bonta and the other Democratic prosecutors argue.

— Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2026
The company is putting together a potential modern-day materials colossus that, pending closure, would include the key materials needed to make semiconductors — Club name Qnity is a big competitor — and run nuclear power plants .

— Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 July 2026

Definition of colossus

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That’s because private insurers tend to follow the lead of Medicare and Medicaid, behemoths that cover about 2 in 5 Americans.

— Sarah Todd, STAT, 17 July 2026
At the All-Star Game, Blue Jays skipper John Schneider and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts were asked about the weakness of the AL compared to the behemoth of the NL.

— Andy McCullough, New York Times, 17 July 2026

Definition of behemoth

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For a mammoth, a successful pregnancy in an elephant surrogate would drag on for almost two years.

— Taylor Dotson, Scientific American, 10 July 2026
According to this theory, those now-extinct megafauna—the giant ground sloths and the giant beavers, the mastodons and mammoths, and even the lions and dire wolves—were relatively quickly hunted to extinction.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026

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Styles like jumbo box braids, chunky cornrows, goddess braids, and oversized stitch braids all fall under the category, each bringing a different mood to the protective style.

— Omenaa Boakye, InStyle, 19 July 2026
Free or discounted phone deals are often full of nasty terms and conditions, buried in reams of legal mumbo-jumbo.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 2 July 2026

Definition of jumbo

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The audience giggled nervously as their seats rocked and rolled during the tense chase scene, and whenever the dinosaur went in for an attack, a squirt of water shot out from behind each audience member’s seat.

— Matt Minton, Variety, 19 July 2026
But there were plenty of amenities to point out—the massage rooms and nap pods, the dinosaur fossil, the wacky sensory-break touches like ball pits, swings, and yoga balls (even if no one actually seemed to use them).

— Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026

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