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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
  • The sector includes some of the tech giants most sensitive to interest rates, because of the hundreds of billions being borrowed to build AI data centers.
    — Steve Kopack, NBC news, 10 Sep. 2026
  • With the rise of domestic e-commerce giants like Taobao and Pinduoduo, Zhu’s team has moved from solely operating brick-and-mortar stores, to building a strong omnichannel network.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of giants
Noun
  • All mammals, from mice to cats to elephants, appear to sleep in some form or another.
    — Michael R. Nadorff, The Conversation, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Other animals like zebras, giraffes, impalas, warthogs, and more soon follow, benefiting from the elephants’ labor.
    — Nicholas DeRenzo, Travel + Leisure, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of elephants
Noun
  • The potential scale of what it has been granted could make the company one of the biggest oil titans in the world.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Remember the many tech titans standing behind him at his 2025 inauguration?
    — The Week US, TheWeek, 2 Sep. 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
Noun
  • And in the Album of the Year race, pop behemoths Drake and Charli xcx are nominated alongside indie icons Kevin Morby and Kurt Vile.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Huge data centers are likely not going anywhere—training new frontier models and running AI models from leading companies will likely still be the purview of these behemoths.
    — Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of behemoths
Noun
  • Each summer, thousands of beluga whales migrate to the mouth of the Churchill River, to feed on small fish and nurse their young.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The underwater drone, tethered to the ship with cables and about the size of a small car, was just above the ocean floor as the researchers and pilots searched for furrows potentially left by whales.
    — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of whales
Noun
  • See fossils of the 14-foot, 20,000-pound mammoths that used to roam around Texas.
    — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Sep. 2026
  • The site preserves the remains of Columbian mammoths and offers a look at Ice Age life in Texas.
    — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of mammoths
Noun
  • When a massive asteroid impact triggered a global extinction 66 million years ago, almost all dinosaurs and early bird lineages died out.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026
  • The feather dates back to the late Cretaceous, right before the great extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs and a large swath of other species.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of dinosaurs
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