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
  • Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares of Chinese tech giants Alibaba and Baidu rose Thursday on their partnership with Apple for deploying their AI tools.
    — Justina Lee, CNBC, 16 July 2026
  • Previously, geological features left behind by landslides have been found on a host of bodies in the solar system, including Mars, Ceres in the asteroid belt, some of the icy moons of the gas giants, and even Pluto's companion, Charon.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 16 July 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • Early the next morning, we sat surrounded by a herd of 13 elephants.
    — Rebekah Peppler, Travel + Leisure, 14 July 2026
  • That much pressure is like having five elephants standing on your shoulders!
    — Vahe Peroomian, The Conversation, 13 July 2026
Definition of elephants
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  • This clash of could-be titans proved to be too evenly matched for much action.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
  • Prior to joining Nutanix, Sam held senior leadership roles at several industry titans, including Broadcom, VMware, Cisco Systems, Palo Alto Networks, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, and Illumio.
    — Sam Rastogi, Forbes.com, 1 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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  • The rapid increase from 2025’s dealmaking number was powered by massive funding rounds at OpenAI and Anthropic, the AI behemoths behind ChatGPT and Claude.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 13 July 2026
  • The tech companies, especially the trillion-dollar behemoths, just have so much more to offer than any other industry.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 12 July 2026
Definition of behemoths
Noun
  • The same week of sky that delivers the aurora is also delivering polar bears on the tundra and beluga whales in the estuary.
    — Cody Chomiak, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
  • This year, the company began offering sailboat trips for between five and 10 people to observe the whales.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 1 July 2026
Definition of whales
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
  • The artificial egg tech is the latest addition to Colossal's list of de-extinction projects, which now span dodo birds, dire wolves, and mammoths.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 May 2026
Definition of mammoths
Noun
  • Some of the other tooth traces may have been created by other meat-eating dinosaurs and crocodilians.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 15 July 2026
  • Part of his charm here included playing the stalwart father figure to two terrified kids — someone a child could trust to stick around and keep watch all night when the dinosaurs came chomping.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 14 July 2026
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