AMAZONS Synonyms: 42 Similar and Opposite Words

amazons

noun

plural of amazon

as in giants

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Noun

Andersen predicts security concerns will ultimately keep China’s turbine giants from conquering the continent.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026
As rural communities across the United States wage intensifying battles to keep AI-computing data centers out of their backyards, some tech giants are mulling methods that could sidestep such local resentment — by sending the facilities to space.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of giants

Noun

This wildly luxurious hideaway coexists with nature to put you up-close with the Big Five—especially the elephants, lion, and rhino that roam this northwest corner of South Africa.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Acehnese conservationist Farwiza Farhan has spent years fighting to protect Sumatra’s Leuser Ecosystem—perhaps the last place on Earth where elephants, tigers, rhinos and orangutans still coexist in the wild.

— Ashleigh Nghiem, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of elephants

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But compared to galaxies, which can host 100 billion similarly sized star systems, even these cosmic titans are relatively small in stature.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026
The guest list includes Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, among other tech titans staking out positions on whether more safeguards are needed in the race to develop artificial intelligence.

— Aamer Madhani, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of titans

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Major indexes shifted lower after a quiet morning as rising bond yields undercut much of the heavy lifting being done by several technology behemoths.

— Damian J. Troise, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Two sets of Brooks River behemoths duke it out, including last year’s champion, Bear #32 (Chunk).

— Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of behemoths

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For decades, the seabirds have pecked at whales surfacing to breathe, gorging on their skin and blubber.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
The new interpretations of the Endangered Species Act remove some of the legal basis for enforcing rules for noisy seismic surveys, speed limits on vessels and restrictions on shipping routes designed to help protect the whales from harm.

— Timothy Randhir, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of whales

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In ancient California, they are believed to have existed alongside other extinct native species, including bison-sized Jefferson’s ground sloths, Columbian mammoths and western camels.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of mammoths

Noun

Its discovery adds to our understanding of one of the world’s premier fossil deposits and what life in Illinois looked like even before dinosaurs.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 Sep. 2026
For the dinosaurs that survived the initial blast, the world became an unforgiving wilderness of starvation and severe climate shifts.

— Kevin Brown, Forbes.com, 24 Sep. 2026

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