amazon

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Noun
  • Since then, the commission has widened its crackdown on digital giants with more antitrust investigations targeting Amazon, Apple and Facebook and sweeping new rules aimed at clamping down on the biggest digital companies.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • In the years since, Monsanto, now owned by German chemical giant Bayer, has paid out over $10 billion to settle about 100,000 claims from people who said their health was harmed after they were exposed to Roundup.
    Sarah J. Morath, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • Excavators uncovered stone artifacts and bones of Stegodon florensis insularis, a bison-size extinct relative of elephants, near the Homo floresiensis fossils.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
  • Andrea Gutierrez, a University of Texas professor who researched captive elephants in South Asia, said Kerala's temple elephants are male, which poses a problem.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Nuevo León is the country’s muscular northern colossus.
    Food Editor, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
  • Patrick Vieira was 24 years old and totally immersed in his career, a midfield colossus with Arsenal and a World Cup winner with France, when the call of Africa became overwhelming.
    Oliver Kay, New York Times, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • Those include swimming dolphins, traveling in space, and taking a bath with a whale.
    Parents, Parents, 3 July 2026
  • Along with a full roster of shows and entertainment, the ship will sail with a whale specialist during summer months.
    Jane Wooldridge, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • The move reverses Roberts’ purchase of NBCUniversal in 2011 — a bold bet that created a behemoth with popular programming and cable pipes to pump that content into consumer homes.
    Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
  • Opened in 1901, the ornate behemoth in Center City, built in the style of the Second Empire, remains a showstopper today.
    Regan Stephens, New York Times, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • For the next 49,000 years, the sticky pits captured virtually everything that fell or walked onto them, from grains of pollen borne by the wind to hapless ancient camels and Columbian mammoths.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • Every jumbo checking account is automatically paired with an Alliant High-Rate Savings Account, giving you both in one place.
    Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 27 June 2026
  • According to Heavy, Derby weekend crowds are expected to consume roughly 142,000 hot dogs, 18,000 barbecue sandwiches, 13,800 pounds of beef, 32,400 jumbo shrimp, 9,000 scallops, and 8,000 pounds of potatoes.
    Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 1 May 2026
Noun
  • Technology has come a long way since the dinosaur tail bone was first found, allowing researchers to peer inside bones and gain even more detailed information about ancient creatures.
    ABC News, ABC News, 29 June 2026
  • As reported by the New York Times, the statue by artist Aldo Beroisa follows from other creations of his including statues of dinosaurs and Jesus, and has been in the works for more than a year.
    Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026
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“Amazon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amazon. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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