amazons

noun

plural of amazon
as in giants

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  1. giants
  2. elephants
  3. titans
  4. dreadnoughts
  5. behemoths
  6. whales
  7. mammoths
  8. dinosaurs
Noun
  • They also aren’t convinced by big tech giants’ promises of economic benefits from the centers.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 30 July 2026
  • The scenes with the incredible Cyclops and later with the giants, the Laestrygonians, feel particularly impressive.
    — Nicole Russell, USA Today, 30 July 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • Imagine the weight of 10 heavy elephants all balancing on the tiny point of a pin, right in the middle of hot lava.
    — Robin Macaluso, The Conversation, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Kenya is home to the Big Five (lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos and buffalo), and its Maasai Mara National Reserve hosts the annual Great Migration when millions of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles cross the ecosystem.
    — Ashley Lynch July 31, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
Definition of elephants
Noun
  • Tech titans descend on Washington after that unprecedented OpenAI hack.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Seoul’s market has been at the center of AI’s huge swings because it’s dominated by two tech titans, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.
    — Stan Choe, Fortune, 31 July 2026
Definition of titans
Noun
  • Before the dominance of aircraft carriers, dreadnoughts (later battleships) were the centerpiece of any serious navy.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
Definition of dreadnoughts
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  • And what will the technology drive these corporate behemoths to do?
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 25 July 2026
  • The investigation comes on the heels of back-to-back crackdowns on Big Tech by Brussels, which has led the world in regulating tech behemoths including Meta and Apple.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 24 July 2026
Definition of behemoths
Noun
  • One trip might involve spotting whales in a coastal fjord, while another centers on hiking through alpine wilderness or watching bears catch salmon.
    — Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2026
  • Alex Forrest, a volunteer drone pilot with the Organisation for the Rescue and Research of Cetaceans in Australia (ORRCA), recorded the moment on July 28 during the whales’ northbound migration.
    — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 30 July 2026
Definition of whales
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  • These results raise some questions about how Ice Age hunter-gatherers interacted with wooly mammoths.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 30 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
Definition of mammoths
Noun
  • Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist who hunts and writes about dinosaurs.
    — Big Think, Big Think, 31 July 2026
  • The collection is inspired by some of the museum's most iconic exhibits and features apparel and accessories for the whole family, with playful nods to everything from towering dinosaurs to tiny insects.
    — Casey DelBasso, ABC News, 30 July 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
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