amazons

plural of amazon

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Noun
  • Except buying Madrid is impossible because the Spanish giants have never been for sale.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • For the first time, a rocket aims to surpass the past giants in power and capacity and make space travel economically sustainable.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Published in 2014, this story features a ring with a blue-green stone shaped like an elephant, infused with the spirit of a ghost.
    Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
  • According to her, the zoo takes the palatable trees removed from the preserve — dogwood, sumac, elm, mulberry, and boxelder — and feeds them to a variety of zoo animals, including gorillas, elephants, and giraffes.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The second-priciest ZIP code, 94027, sits in Atherton, California, a Silicon Valley community that houses titans of tech.
    Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
  • On this night in 2023, however, the cavernous five-story building was filled with bearded, flannel-wearing, middle-aged former punks, most of whom came to see Nineties punk titans Unwound play a reunion for the 20th birthday of the archival record label Numero Group.
    David Hill, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Then the older elephants — Ndlula, Umngani, Khosi — scramble to encircle and shield the two 7-year-old calves Zuli and Mkhaya from any possible threats.
    Nina Græger, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The whole thing was 0nce an old British hunting outpost, built for grand hunting parties with elephants, silverware, and crates of champagne carried through thick jungle by unnamed brown men.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Netflix’s bi-annual ‘data dumps’ are now bedecked with children’s TV shows, merchandising opportunities are greater than ever thanks to streaming and platforms like YouTube can create global behemoths at an astonishing rate.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Investment banking behemoths such as JPMorgan have not posted their third-quarter results, but JPM co-CEO of commercial and investment bank Doug Petno expects investment banking revenue to grow a low double-digit percentage .
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Driftwood tent shelters appear marooned like shipwrecks, and the beach is scattered with the bones of the giant whales.
    Chloe Berge, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • It was enacted the year before the Endangered Species Act, at a time when the movement to save whales from extinction was growing.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Humans have had an impact on biodiversity as far back as 130,000 years ago, with the disappearance of mammoths and giant sloths—and extinction has continued in our wake as the human race spread across the globe.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In a study published in Cell, researchers set out to trace the microbial companions of mammoths across a staggering timeline, from over a million years ago to their final days on Wrangel Island just 4,000 years ago.
    Pranjal Malewar, New Atlas, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile warm-up demonstrations in Portland feature protestors in inflatable animal costumes—lots of frogs, along with unicorns, chickens, dinosaurs dancing in the streets, providing an alternative visual to the menace of masked enforcement agents.
    Nancy Gibbs, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But this may be the first tech revolution that doesn’t vaporize the dinosaurs, the way mobile killed Nokia and threatened Microsoft, but grafts their DNA onto something new.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Amazons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/amazons. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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